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...field,” senior co-captain Adam Hahn said. “It also gives the team a bit more confidence.” The Harvard team as a whole has been showered with well-deserved praise. Starting the season with a No. 15 ranking, key wins over tough east-coast opponents and an untarnished record have continually lifted Harvard up in the polls to its final resting spot at an impressive No. 7. “It’s a great start,” Hoff said. “People look at that record and they?...
These issues are extremely complex, and even well-educated people sometimes lack an understanding of the political complexity and public sacrifices involved in their possible solutions. It’s important we not mistake the current hatred for President Bush as political will to make tough changes. If politicians today can’t even assemble the political will to end agricultural subsidies that give American farmers an unfair edge over farmers in developing countries, what prospect is there for real progress on global climate change, which will involve considerable lifestyle adjustments...
...other candidates are not without their strengths, but they will not be perceived as tough because they lack the steel that only comes with experience. They will not be the ones who will bring the Democrats full circle to the days of Truman and Kennedy. And Hillary will do so as a woman, as the supposed nightmare of every gun-toting, white, male NASCAR fan. She isn’t the be-all, end-all, but her presidency will be transformative, not only for the Democratic Party, but for the sexual and regional divides that have so characterized our recent...
...domestically, expect tough, realistic action on a number of our country’s most pressing problems. Compromise, “triangulation,” and fighting the good fight when that is what is required to get the job done. Only a person with the unmatched combination of executive and congressional experience of Hillary Clinton, on top of an entire career dedicated to the resolution of the major domestic issues of our time—medicine, education, poverty—is the whole package...
...Department of Homeland Security should be asking itself some tough questions in light of the potentially catastrophic terrorist operation that was foiled by German authorities in early September—namely, would such an attack have been prevented on American soil, by American security agents...