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...Saturday, amid all the pageantry of Harvard-Yale, Senior Day, and Spring Weekend, the men’s lacrosse team looked to accomplish something it had not achieved since 2004: a winning season. In its final game at Harvard Stadium this year, the Crimson (7-5, 2-3 Ivy) led the Bulldogs (5-7, 1-5 Ivy) throughout the contest and pulled away late, winning, 13-8, and ensuring a record over .500.“It was just a great win,” captain Max Mottschwiller said. “We needed to get this...
...just relentless. You’re working 16-18 hour days easily. You have a lot of stuff flying at you. And so you basically are trying to make sure that every day you stay on track, you have something that you’re trying to accomplish, and that you’re making progress towards that. But you have interferences all day long: opponents attack you, the press may have some new investigative story, there may be some event in the world. So that’s what makes it challenging. It’s a relentless pace...
...pick for Education Secretary: Arne Duncan, who was a cool and driven reformer as CEO of the Chicago public-school system and is also a basketball player from the South Side who knows how to move the ball. Duncan's position on common standards is clear: "If we accomplish one thing in the coming years, it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America," he says. "I know that talking about standards can make people nervous, but the notion that we have 50 different goalposts is absolutely ridiculous." (Read "No Child Left Behind: Doomed to Fail...
...Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith suggested that students with a need to remain on campus “may potentially include varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research, and others who cannot reasonably accomplish their work in another location...
...mail further stated that, “Students who need to be on campus may potentially include varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research, and others who cannot reasonably accomplish their work in another location...