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...train for the Olympics, never again to fence wearing Crimson. Junior Carolyn Wright decided to go abroad. A battle with leukemia sidelined men’s co-captain foilist Sam Cross. Down two foilists and a saber fencer, Harvard set out to defend its title while taking on tougher competition. In the Ivy League, Penn was better, and so was Columbia. Nationally, the competition was as stiff as ever. At the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson faced the challenge of taking on 12-person teams with just 11 fencers—it was almost impossible for Harvard to take home...
...ECAC with St. Lawrence heading into the tournament.With the regular season over, Harvard entered the ECAC playoffs looking for its fourth consecutive conference championship.The Crimson easily dispatched the Bulldogs in the first round, sweeping Yale in two games.Harvard’s opponent in the semifinals proved much tougher. The Crimson was once again at the mercy of the all-too familiar Saints. Despite a late comeback attempt, Harvard fell to St. Lawrence, 4-3, ending its hopes of a four-peat.With the early ECAC exit lingering in its collective memory, the Crimson traveled to Wisconsin as determined as ever...
...Even tougher is the one perplexing area in which the fight against global warming conflicts with the U.S.'s goal of greater energy independence: coal. "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal," Dingell recently declared. We have seemingly endless tons of the stuff, which can be converted into liquid fuel for cars. Coal boosters are pushing legislation through Congress to subsidize the use of coal instead of oil. The only problem: coal is the dirtiest source of greenhouse gases. Representative Rick Boucher, from Virginia's mining country, chairs the subcommittee on energy, but coal's influence goes further than...
...immigrants, what will happen to the economy? -Charles Horton, BEIJINGYou can get a lot of interesting data on each side of this. What does seem to happen is that when there's a reduction in low-wage workers, companies tend to develop technologies to compensate. Tomato farmers genetically engineered tougher skins so tomatoes could be picked by machine, for example. And citrus growers are starting to do the same things...
...this time, he says, he thinks the result could be different. "The country understands we have a series of choices now that, if we put them off any longer, will be much tougher to deal with, and we may not be able to deal with them at all," he says. "So I think there's going to be greater responsiveness to people who are actually saying what they think." It helps that Obama delivers his truth telling with a heavy dollop of optimism--a politically useful distinction from those truth tellers, like Tsongas, who came across as dour and depressing...