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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Indeed, the Crimson has plenty to anticipate in 2010. No longer sporting a target on its back, Harvard knows it’s nonetheless a frontrunner for another Ivy championship. Although the loss of the core of its offensive line will undoubtedly be a setback, the Crimson will welcome back a number of key position players, perhaps none more important than its offensive backfield...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: No Three-Peat for Football | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...injury kept the junior from conditioning all summer and fall—a major setback for an athlete competing in an endurance sport...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COMEBACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Junior Returns with Stellar Race | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Suffering a decline in popularity largely because of the global financial crisis and Hungary's high levels of unemployment, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's Socialist Party suffered a major setback in the country's first round of parliamentary elections on April 11. Although the final allotment of seats won't be determined until after a second round of polling on April 25, the center-right Fidesz party looks to have won 206 spots in the 386-member parliament, while the extremist, far-right Jobbik party, a nationalist group that some accuse of anti-Semitism, won an estimated 26 seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...proton beams. Each was moving with an energy equivalent to 3.5 trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain how energy from the Big Bang turned into mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...most significant government setback in the undeclared war between the two Indias. The Maoists thrive in the "other" India - the one that is impoverished and left behind as one-fifth of the country's populace has begun to thrive, while the other 800 million suffer with growing resentment from chronic poverty and live without electricity, roads, hospitals, proper sanitation or clean water - the classic breeding ground for left-wing extremist violence. As Mao himself prescribed in 1927, "It's necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror in every rural area ... To right a wrong it is necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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