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This is the world of the Treasury Secretary turned University president, and this year, with his rocky start behind him, Summers began to produce some results. Trained in the D.C. jungle of red tape, the sophomore president was able to wield his authoritative, top-down style to productive ends...
...should know how to Socially Analyze and Quantitatively Reason. You should know not to touch John Harvard’s foot. School spirit being what it is, you need not learn how to wield a set of pom-poms. Not that such knowledge is entirely elusive. Given the occasion of Harvard’s first cheerleading clinic last month, FM decided not to cut gym this time and sent Kristi L. Jobson and Véronique E. Hyland to scream their hearts...
...Yale history professor Paul Kennedy has written, “A statistician could have a wild time compiling lists of the fields in which the U.S. leads.” Now, as M1A1 Abrams tanks take up positions on Baghdad street corners, the question is how the U.S. will wield its “big stick...
Talaid offers a solid and moving performance as the title character, though, ultimately, she is unable to wield a unifying force over the many characters she encounters. Talaid’s inability to bring cohesion to the play doesn’t derive so much from a lack of talent or emotional investment—both of which she in fact clearly demonstrates—but rather to the Herculean task set forth by Rivera for his protagonist. Marisol must unify, in addition to her own fractured sense of the world, all of the play’s disparate characters...
...down 20 percent this year according to the Modern Language Association (MLA). Of course, the fiercer the competition for a diminishing number of purely academic titles, the finer the hairs Sisler and his editors must split when deciding whom to publish—and the greater the power they wield...