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...post. A timeout called by Donato did little to settle the Crimson, as Jean-Francois Boucher took the puck in the right circle and roofed it with 65 seconds remaining for the 4-1 lead. Senior backup goalie Justin Tobe opened the third period in Richter’s stead. “It was a team-wide disappointing game,” Donato later said of the switch, “but [Richter] was certainly part of it.” Yale’s fifth and final goal was an empty-netter, the result of an attempted...
Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...
...Palestinian Territories - and contemplating new setbacks in Afghanistan and Lebanon - the Bush Administration has lately been recasting its Middle East policy: Gone is the bold talk of spreading democracy through the "creative chaos" and "birth pangs" unleashed by the Iraq invasion and other violent episodes; in its stead, we are told, the Administration is seeking a new united front with "responsible" (i.e. U.S.-allied) Arab regimes and Israel to help counter the extremist camp of Iran, Hizballah and Hamas. In this new narrative, Iran is cast as the major regional threat and also, increasingly, as an agent of chaos...
...Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right by Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, too. Jonathan Franzen begins straight up the middle, with The Brothers Karamazov, but turns a sharp corner at #9 with The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, and another at #10 with Independent People by Halldor Laxness. The quintessentially American Tom Wolfe starts by reeling off four French classics in a row. Norman Mailer revives John Dos Passos's out-of-fashion U.S.A. trilogy for his #6 (and shows uncharacteristic forebearance by leaving his own works...
Russia's vast reserves of oil and gas stand it in good stead at a time of high oil prices and growing international concern about future energy supplies. In 2006, Putin made use of them to bolster Russia's position in the world to the strongest it has been since the cold war ended more than 15 years ago. "He's using the advantage of high oil prices to make Russia count," says Margot Light, a Russia expert at the London School of Economics...