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...watched the fourth and final game of the Crimson’s road trip online that morning, I saw Rutherford, N.J. native Frank Herrmann put a stop to all this Texas lunacy and shut down Air Force in a complete game victory...
Closed-door meetings. Reporters shut out of the debate on important initiatives. Spin doctors running interference between regular students and the officials who spend their money. To anyone who’s paid attention to the developments of the last few years, these modern accoutrements of decision-making at Harvard are sadly familiar. But the situation just described isn’t taking place in some administrative corridor of power, where it might by now be reasonably expected—it’s unfolding in Sever 113, the meeting-room of the Undergraduate Council...
What was, at many points during the year, Harvard’s biggest weakness has been transformed into a strength. The team’s penalty kill, which struggled mightily this season despite the fact that Harvard took the fewest penalties in the ECAC, has shut down other teams’ power play units with increasing efficiency over the season’s final weeks...
...that Cahill brought about a truce was to bring in a cadre of Kerry's longtime Boston operatives. They had been shut out by her predecessor, Jim Jordan, who had made no secret of the fact that he regarded most of them as small-time hacks. They held Jordan in equal regard and let Kerry know at every back-channel opportunity. Jordan had also butted heads with media consultant Bob Shrum, who has rarely been on the losing side of an internal battle...
...head of Iran's biggest reformist party - the Participation Front (IIPF) - and brother of the reformist president, believes whoever is in power now, will have to continue reforms. "They might have temporarily paralyzed our movement by barring us from running," he says in the IIPF headquarters that were shut down by the hardline judiciary for a day before elections, "but the process of reform will continue in Iran. It can no longer be stopped...