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Harvard found itself playing catchup against the Bulldogs from the very beginning. The first match went back-and-forth until the score got into the 20s, when Harvard grabbed a 23-22 lead. But Yale rallied for four straight points en route to a 30-25 first set victory, and the Crimson would never seize the momentum again...
...enter the course, couples must be unmarried with a child under age 1. Faverey recruits them by calling parents in CSC's Head Start programs. The group is mainly African Americans and Hispanics in their 20s and 30s, populations in which single-parent households are prevalent. While white families have an 81% chance of including a married couple, Hispanics have a 67% chance and African Americans a 46% chance. For low-income couples like the ones in the class, trading vows is often a lower priority than managing day-to-day dramas like finding housing, treating a health condition...
...fiction, Naipaul's vision is more profound. Whether it is a character like Biswas, whom he created when in his 20s, or Willie Chandran, whom he first dreamed up when in his 60s, Naipaul's fictional heroes are among the most complex in modern literature. Naipaul's strengths as a writer reach far beyond the concerns of the colonial and postcolonial. As Half a Life and Magic Seeds prove, his greatest gift is that he can unlock the closed cabinet of the male psyche and take out so much that is hidden inside: how it hits a man one evening...
...readiness to die for the cause. The most potent evidence surfaced on April 28, when 108 Thai Muslims were killed by security forces in what appeared to be coordinated suicide attacks on military and police posts throughout the south (17 others were captured). Mostly young men in their 20s, the attackers almost to a man carried only knives and machetes and shouted "Allahuakbar!" as they approached their targets?ensuring that the heavily armed defenders had plenty of time to mow them down...
Davis was born in Iowa City, Iowa but later lived in New York and Washington D.C., promoting feminism during World War I and the Roaring ’20s. During the Depression she worked for the Agricultural Adjustment Agency and privately became a communist. Her leftist beliefs led Davis to attend radical writers’ workshop in 1939, where she met her fourth husband Robert Gorham Davis ’29, a Harvard professor in the ’30s and early ’40s . The couple wed shortly after and remained together until his death...