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...seemed determined to will the team to a victory. Coming off the crushing 36-point loss at Cornell in what was the most anticipated game in Harvard history, the Crimson needed the win to stay close to the Big Red and remain in contention for the league crown. Whether or not every student knew the importance of the matchup on display, collectively, they weren’t giving...
...views –Marx and Smith, Freud and Foucault, Mill and Beauvoir. Indeed, students read not just critics of, say, imperialism and capitalism, but also its defenders (i.e., Mill and Hayek.) Social Studies presents its students with conflicting theoretical approaches amongst which they must choose. Regardless of whether they find psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, Marxist, or Weberian theory more compelling, all students are welcome in Social Studies...
...also, that VANOC had no authority to tell them which sports they could and could not include. "I don't know about that," says Lamb. "Ladies' bobsled got into [the 2002 Olympics in] Salt Lake because enough people on the organizing committee pressured the IOC to push it through." Whether or not that's true - only the IOC knows, and its members aren't talking - it doesn't change the court ruling...
...question for Debra Medina is whether there's enough unhappy voters out there for her to get into a runoff with Rick Perry," says Dean Debnam, president of PPP. "That would rank up there with the results of the Massachusetts Senate election as an early shocker in the 2010 political season." (See five lessons from the Tea Party convention...
...widespread discontent with Washington among likely Republican voters. Hutchison's storied 17-year career - she is ranked as one of the 30 most powerful women in the country by Ladies' Home Journal - and her success in bringing home the bacon has become a liability. When poll respondents were asked whether they trust Austin or Washington politicians more when it comes to problem solving, 78% said Austin, and just 3% picked Washington. It is a point Perry pounds home in his ads. (See a story about Rick Perry and the secession ruckus in Texas...