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...weekend also marks the last chance to prepare for its Ivy League opener against rival Yale on October 3. Two worthy opponents and a top ten team face the Crimson men this week in their mission to secure the best record to start a season in school history, but amidst the pressure, the team is keeping its focus.As Millock said, “Nothing matters until we make it to the NCAA’s and win the Ivies...
Many representatives said they felt inspired to run for the UC after the it took a more active role as an advocate for student opinions amidst the budget cut announcements last spring...
...speech, and yet they are constantly interchanged. They call for one another, assume each others’ names, and send each other off on rescue missions that feel more like sabotage. All the while the book’s metafictional mystery of the woman on page eight plays out amidst murders and pregnancies that, truth be told, do not actually exist. As Randi narrates in an aside midway through the novel, “By the way, I don’t think Katarina was even trying to get close to the truth, if once again, just for a moment...
...prolific scoring threat after struggling offensively in recent years, it is no surprise that Harvard is off to its first 3-0 start since 2005.“It’s incredibly important having Chloe up [at forward],” Goodman-Bacon says. “Even amidst the [personnel rotation] and illnesses, it has allowed us to generate the offense we need.”Keating showed particular excitement for the team’s offensive resurgence because it takes pressure off of what was once a much-beleaguered defense. In the standout’s first...
...Fashion Week itself, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour took the notion of consumer incentives to dizzying new heights on Sept. 10 with Fashion’s Night Out. Billed as “a global initiative to promote retail, restore consumer confidence, and celebrate fashion,” amidst an economic recession, the event took place throughout the five boroughs of New York City—with designers and celebrities stationed at nearly every other store—and in cities from London to Beijing. “Let’s make shopping fun again...