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...Governor John Hancock in 1780. It appears all around campus—on the side of Lowell Lecture Hall or the base of the Anderson footbridge. Yet the seal may soon find itself sharing company with the Betsy Ross flag and the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake in the dustbin of iconographic history. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is currently considering House Bill 3412, a measure which would establish a special commission to determine whether the 230-year-old shield “accurately reflects and embodies the historic and contemporary commitments...
...biggest stumbling block might well be the ambivalent feelings of his own people toward China. Fear of domination by China is still widespread among Taiwan's population and Ma might have to tread carefully or risk a backlash. Even those in favor of closer relations, like Kaohsiung's Wayne Lee, harbor lingering fears of the consequences. "We have to ask ourselves if it is worth making a lot of money for 10 years and trading away our sovereignty," he says...
...featured both the potential first female president and potentially the first African American. For Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and senior advisor to Obama’s campaign, calling Clinton a “monster” is to tread in dangerous waters. And she rightfully resigned from the campaign. A comment made by a Clinton spokesman, Howard Wolfson, which compared Obama to Kenneth Starr, the independent investigator who uncovered Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, is hardly better. Moreover, it does not matter that neither...
Which brings us back to Cornell. Don’t look now, but Harvard has vaulted ahead of the Big Red in the ECAC standings, and is poised to earn a first-round bye if it can simply tread water in the season’s final weekend...
Steger is a legendary polar explorer, the first person to make a dogsled trip to the North Pole, and winner of the National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award. He's at home in those frozen, hostile parts of the world that few of us will ever tread. But he's also a dedicated environmentalist who was early to ring the alarm bell on global warming, the effects of which he saw firsthand in his frequent polar expeditions, both in the Arctic and Antarctica. To help raise awareness of the damage climate change is wreaking on the polar regions, next month...