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...Berry, poised as he always is to receive punts. But as the ball came down, a Tiger and a Crimson special teams player tussled and pushed through Berry’s halo and into the senior. The ball came loose and was recovered by Princeton at the Harvard 20. Yes, a flag flew, as it should when there is interference on the kick return. But as I feared in the back of my mind, the flag wasn’t for interference. Illegal block in the back, they called—against Harvard.As the other writers and I tried...
...shaping, the framing taking place behind the scenes, and make clear to the world the hollowness of not just “The One’s” message, but of his persona too. Unlikely as it might seem, 40 years ago that maneuver would have been inconceivable. Yes, politicians have always tried to bring each other’s authenticity into doubt, but what Palin did during the convention was something distinct from the mere questioning of her opponent’s credibility. She did not try to impugn Obama’s credentials but rather...
...Sudan. Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, is among those who believe that just because something is difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it." Says Evans: "In Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur, you have a lackluster result, yes, but you had to have peacekeepers with a mandate that was accepted by the government. A full-bore invasion [would have had] catastrophic results." Evans is also keen to highlight "unheralded, unacclaimed" R2P successes like in Kenya this year and in Burundi in the early years of the decad - both...
...Yale Bowl in 2005, as a wiper snapper, young Harvard freshman. Yes, I was 15 pounds lighter, yes, I peed on the walkway while walking in, and yes, I narrowly avoided a security guards attempted tackle to storm the field...
...Obama is the master of giving people some of what they want, enough to make the common ground seem sufficiently hospitable for them to agree to try it out for a while. So where one hand giveth, the other hand holds the price tag. Yes, we need to give troubled kids better opportunities, he says, but parents have to turn off the TV and weigh in and get involved. Yes, the government needs to drive an alternative-energy economy, but we have to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. Yes, we can argue, but we also have...