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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there, Harvard dominated, with senior Lindsay Scherf in eighth, finishing in 18:39.6. Freshman Jamie Olson was shortly behind in ninth, and classmate Claire Richardson was 12th. Captain Sarah Bourne was 16th, closely followed by classmate Lauren Walker in 17th. Sophomore Caitlin Clifford rounded out the scoring by finishing 18th. For both teams, it was the first meet with the full roster running, and youngsters on both teams have already proven themselves valuable. “They’re highly important to our season,” Holmquest said. “I don’t like...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cross Country Records Rare Win Over Yale | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

...this hidden autobiography," says leading Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "That's a modern image of the writer as someone who puts his own experiences into his plays, a very romantic idea of writing. But it's just not how plays were written back then." (Read about England's 18th century Shakespeare hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of Shakespeare's Identity | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...book, A Farewell to Alms, economic historian Gregory Clark notes that the yawning chasm between rich and poor has been widening since the late 18th century. "Hundreds of millions of Africans now live on less than 40% of the income of pre-industrial England," he writes. Clark proposes a wildly contentious explanation for this disparity. By studying wills from England circa 1800, he finds that rich families tended to reproduce far more abundantly than poor ones. As the affluent outbred the poor, bourgeois values like thrift and literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now for the Bad News | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...President George W. Bush recently for a 90-minute refueling stop en route from Iraq to Australia, Diego Garcia looked drab: think early-'70s industrial park. But as a 1,700-man springboard for the projection of military might to the far reaches of the world, it rivals anything 18th century Britain or Augustan Rome ever came up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Diego Garcia | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...Dominion by ten shots before East Carolina state took over the top spot on the leader board for good by firing a second-round 276.Sophomore Greg Shuman carded the lowest round for the team with a three-day score of 217 to finish in four-way tie for 18th place.Shuman fired a one-under-par 71 during his first round on Monday morning. He then turned in a one-over par 73 the remaining rounds on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. “I played pretty well but could have played better,” Shuman said...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Golf Takes Fourth in North Carolina | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

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