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...also surprised by men’s foil squad who came in second.” Although the IFA championships have a rich history, the tournament has no influence on NCAA qualifications. Some coaches use the tournament to rest tired or sick players and give younger team members experience. Other coaches use the competition as a springboard for the major NCAA postseason tournaments. Another bright spot for the Crimson was the team’s intensity and passion. “Our team was the loudest and we had the most spirit of any team in that room...
...into the break up 33-23. With just over 12 minutes left, Harvard had built a 19-point lead, and continued to roll until the game’s close. The ease of victory also allowed Delaney-Smith to give opportunities to some of the squad’s younger players. Every available Crimson player got at least four minutes of game time. On the offensive end, Rollins was once again the Crimson’s biggest force. She shot 8-for-9 from the floor and added four rebounds to the effort as well. “I just...
...less charismatic Raul is considered more pragmatic than his brother, and had been making perestroika-style noises since taking over as interim President after Fidel underwent major intestinal surgery 18 months ago. As a result, now that Raul has full presidential powers, many Cuba watchers had expected younger faces to emerge - widely anticipating, for example, that Raul's reform-minded economy czar, Carlos Lage, who in relative Cuban terms is a positively teen-aged 56, would become First Vice President. Lage instead remained as a subordinate Vice President. Meanwhile, hard-liners such as National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcon, 70, whose...
...Raul's Sunday strategy was clearly meant to tamp down reform expectations -which the younger Castro, who has nudged Cuba's moribund economy toward capitalism and encouraged more open debate about its totalitarian politics, may have felt were rising too quickly for him to meet in the wake of Fidel's exit. "Raul has to proceed cautiously," concedes Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "In the past 18 months he has elevated popular expectations. Now he has to manage them...
There is a clear generational split between younger political leaders and what Jim Henson, director of the Texas Political Project at the University of Texas, calls machine politicians, many of whom are backing Clinton. Those generational differences represent a "cellular shift among Democrats," Henson says. That was illustrated Wednesday when President Bill Clinton stood side by side at a Beaumont rally with octogenarian former Congressman Jack Brooks. Beaumont is one of the working class areas of East Texas Bill Clinton has been working for his wife. But Obama is now "leading a movement," Stein says, a "child's crusade" that...