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...periods, the Harvard women’s hockey team was unrecognizable. The recently dominant Crimson missed offensive opportunities, looked sluggish on the ice, and seemed to lack the sense of urgency that a playoff series should inspire.It took one long shot off the stick of junior Kathryn Farni to change that.No. 7 Harvard reasserted its authority in the final frame to earn a 3-0 victory over Cornell in the first game of the ECAC quarterfinals Friday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center. “I think we came out a little slow,” Crimson coach Katey Stone...
...student at the discussion last week noted the lack of decency in Harvard men today, concluding, “Being a good man is not a high priority.” Indeed, that’s because moral education is not a priority for the College. The old Harvard had its prejudices against women and minorities, but it tried to teach its graduates as best it knew how. Now, University Hall seems determined to train the next generation of professional women, yet it seems to have forgotten its men, explaining to them the boundaries but never the game plan...
...Humanitarian aid does little to help the U.S.'s medium-term goals in Gaza: curtailing the flow of arms to Hamas and boosting the Palestinian Authority there. And in fact, the lack of progress on those goals undermines the good that the aid itself can achieve. "In order for the humanitarian response to be as effective as possible, you need a solution to smuggling [of weapons into Gaza by Hamas] and you need a solution to divided authority [between Hamas and Fatah]," admits one senior State Department official. But none of the money the U.S. plans to pledge...
...come up with an effective answer? Its fudged response so far is partly down to a lack of institutional architecture: the European Central Bank, for example, has far fewer resources than the U.S. Federal Reserve, while the European Commission can only work with the budget provided by E.U. member states. At the same time, leaders like Sarkozy, Merkel and Brown have been too busy putting out fires at home to provide strong leadership out of the crisis...
...involvement of some top military officers, according to regional sources. In an interview with TIME in Bissau in 2007, a high-ranking West African military officer who asked not to be named said Guinea-Bissau's government and mlitary allowed drug traffickers to operate "not because of a lack of resources but a lack of political will...