Word: 16th
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...Harvard women have had even better success than the Crimson men. Their 6-1-0 overall record (1-0-0 Ivy League) has earned them a 17th-place national ranking. Cornell, however, is one notch ahead of them at 16th...
...Harvard, Curtis completed the 10,000-meter course in 33:19. Senior John Oja--the Crimson's top finisher at Van Cortlandt Park last weekend--crossed the line behind Curtis in 33:24, with Jon Lewis (34:04) and Brian Cann (34:49) finishing 16th and 18th, respectively...
Currier House's party will be "a little more upbeat" than just a 350th celebration because new masters Gregory and Zuzana Nagy will throw a Sweet Sixteen party to celebrate the house's 16th birthday, said Patricia Pepper, assistant to the masters...
Although his confirmation as the 16th Chief Justice of the U.S. was all but certain, William Rehnquist received only grudging approval from the U.S. Senate last week. Democrats castigated his caustic opposition to civil rights programs and questioned his ability to serve as a "symbol of justice" for the nation. Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland objected to Rehnquist's failure in 1972 to withdraw as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from a civil liberties case that he had worked on as an Assistant Attorney General...
Such excess, suggests Serpell, leads to the still prevalent view that demonstrative affection for animals is peculiar, if not unnatural. In 16th century Europe, women who talked to animals ran the risk of being incinerated for witchcraft. Today the ardent pet enthusiast is suspected of being a closet misanthrope. Not necessarily. The author's reading of available data tends to a more positive interpretation: "a vague suggestion that some pet-owners, for reasons which are unclear, may have a greater desire for company and friendship and because of this use their pets to augment what they already derive from...