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...adulation. In his rumpled white shirt, and with a slight paunch and wire-rimmed glasses, Bhagat looks much more like an overworked investment banker (in fact he is one, and has been for 15 years) than a best-selling author (which he has been for the past four). The success of his first book, Five Point Someone, a campus novel following three best friends at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, took him by surprise. "I didn't have the baggage of other Indian authors," he says. "I just wanted to write a fun book...
...decades ago. When the two are on opposing sidelines directing their troops, however, it’s a completely different story. “On game day, it’s different,” Teevans said. “It’s two coaches competing to have success.”Tomorrow, Murphy and Teevens will face each other once again, as the No. 23 Crimson (5-1, 2-1) travel to Hanover, N.H. to play the Big Green (0-6, 0-3). The game will be televised on NESN. While Harvard comes into the game en route...
...runs, he’s full of energy. He’s got this tenacity. It’s quite amazing to see actually.”On the women’s side, sophomores Claire Richardson and Jamie Olson look to lead the way to another successful outing. The two have competed all year long, concurrently pushing each other to do better each time they race.“Claire and Jamie have been neck and neck all season long,” Saretsky said. “I’m looking forward to seeing them work together...
...powerful interest groups makes it easier to do nothing about big problems than to tackle them. Even the strongest, wiliest, most effective Presidents must change shape and shift direction to accommodate these and other forces. An ability to alter course without losing one's way is essential to presidential success. "I claim not to have controlled events," Abraham Lincoln wrote, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me." As the sailor President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood, only rarely does a fair wind blow squarely at the President's back. More typical is the gale blowing from dead ahead...
...activity opened Obama to criticism from McCain that he was prematurely "measuring the drapes" of the Oval Office. Instead of drapes, though, the Illinois Senator seemed to be thinking of Cervantes, who declared, "To be prepared is half the victory." Indeed, one of Obama's striking qualities is that success never takes him by surprise. He's like a golfer who makes a hole in one and tells his stunned partners, That's where I was aiming...