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...quarterback Nathan Ford, has struggled throwing the ball in the early stages of the season. While the sophomore represents a viable running threat for the Cornell, he has completed just over half of his passes and thrown four interceptions in his first three games. Knowles, however, is steadfast in his support of the young field general.“I have a lot of confidence in him,” Knowles said. “It doesn’t mean he doesn’t make mistakes. He’s still young. He’s a great...
...McKinney wrote in an e-mail.As an upperclassman, Sprague found solace in the company of other young Republicans, McKinney said.“He flaunted the Republican lifestyle and even went so far as to work openly for Republican causes,” McKinney wrote. “He was steadfast and unflappable in his ideology.”That Sprague was an alumnus himself probably would not influence his leniency on a fellow Crimsonite.“I don’t think it would change his judgment because, with my experience of Harvard...some people come out being very...
...Enter Anson Chan, a charismatic 66-year-old who was a top civil servant under Tung and the last colonial Governor, Chris Patten. Chan's return to the political arena has caused a commotion. Known as "Hong Kong's conscience" for her steadfast support of the city's freedoms, Chan was mobbed by supporters and reporters when she joined this year's protest; as many as 1 in 4 demonstrators said her participation encouraged them to march. Last week, Chan gave her most detailed speech yet, criticizing the slow pace of democratic reform, and announced that she'd form...
...career and a domestic life are quite conflicted. But my belief about the right of each woman to make her own individual choices—about career path, family life, or what clothes to wear tomorrow—without the responsibility or the constraint of her gender is steadfast. And the effort to contextualize, and thus compartmentalize, every action a woman makes within the broader framework of “women’s roles” often obscures this individuality.It seems that the tendency to see any action taken by a female as indicative of some broader assertion about...
...Commonwealth. But Harvard rallied around its traditions of allowing ideas to be freely expressed, and Fast spoke and was listened to politely. He changed no one’s mind. Life went on as before. As students, we were proud of Harvard and its administration for its steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote...