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...from tenth place, where we’ve traditionally been,” said Harvard nordic coach Peter Graves. “I’m pretty optimistic, but we have a lot of work to do to move up to seventh and eighth place. This is forward progress for our ski team.” Harvard’s total of 292 points beat out scores from St. Michaels and Bowdoin, but it wasn’t easy—Friday’s action featured some of the strangest weather of the season...
...Saudi Arabia has made a lot of progress in terms of tracking terrorist financing and in terms of these private groups," she told Arab journalists. "I think there's still work to do. It's hard. It's not an easy process to know what is happening with so-called or charitable institutions that are really not charitable. They're funding terrorism. But they have measures in place. I think we continue to work to make sure that those measures are getting stronger and that they are robust enough, but it is true that Saudi has taken on this issue...
...plans a high-profile meeting in Cairo with Egyptian opposition figures to make the point that, as she put it last week, "Egypt... needs to keep pushing ahead on the democratic course, because it is a great civilization and a great people and it can lead the democratic progress in the Arab world and I would hope that it will do that...
...DISPUTE CAN BE RESOLVED DIPLOMATICALLY? Sure. I never would have guessed that Libya was prepared to make the calculation that they were safer giving up the pursuit of nuclear weapons than continuing to go after them, and yet they did [give them up]. And that led to substantial progress in the relationship between Libya and the United States. If Libya can do it, Iran can do it too. That's why I say the decision ultimately is largely in their hands...
...akin to St. Patrick’s Day for Irish-Americans and Columbus Day for Italians, Engerman said. Another historian at the DuBois Institute, James C. McCann, noted that schoolchildren now know the names of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. “That’s real progress,” McCann said...