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This type of commission is not uncommon in the wake of such a large calamity, according to Kennedy School Professor Herman “Dutch” B. Leonard ’74, who specializes in crisis management...
...wake of President Obama’s election, however, most in Congress looked backward for inspiration. Many Democrats reverted to the New Deal philosophy of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, Republicans to the tax cuts and small government philosophy of former President Ronald W. Reagan. One side took refuge in ideas that were 75 years old, the other in ideas that were 30 years old. They are both out of date. They depend on the stale and discredited argument that you must be either for big government or against it, that government is either the solution...
That kind of atmosphere helped the Crimson stay loose in a tight race for the Ivy title. When Harvard’s six-game winning streak was snapped by Wake Forest, the Crimson didn’t miss a beat in its following games, when the team tied Cornell and rallied to knock off then-No. 15 Brown. And when an upset loss to Princeton threatened to dismantle the team’s Ivy title hopes, Harvard responded by going undefeated for the rest of the regular season to capture the crown. Throughout the year, the Crimson athletes played with...
...team’s final ranking doesn’t even tell the whole story. When Harvard took on then-No. 3 Wake Forest, it held the Demon Deacons to a 1-0 victory in a contest where the host team was only able to register three more shots than the Crimson. Harvard was also only outshot by three in its final loss of the season to Maryland. In both contests, Clark guided Harvard to play beyond its ranking. He had trust in his players’ abilities, and they gave him reason to believe...
When junior Cara Sprague left nearly all of New England in her wake with her sixth-place finish in the classic event of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships in February, she did more than post one of the strongest finishes in the history of Harvard skiing and lead her women’s Nordic team to a second-place finish...