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...Fight Club style, in high definition. Is there really much more to life? The game play is not cutting edge, but Dead or Alive 4 may be the most visually impressive game on the 360, with fluid animation, wild new martial-arts styles, luscious lighting effects and insanely detailed background environments. And those fighters: really, really good looking...
...third. Wilson also took second place in the 200-yard freestyle. Senior Erin Mulkey led the 1-2-3 finish, with Wilson in second and Skoda in third. Freshman Emiley Jellie had another standout day, winning the 1,650-yard free. “She has an international meet background,” Lee said. “She definitely brings a lot to the team from that standpoint.” Senior Jane Evans won the 200 yard butterfly, and senior Kim Ono and freshman Linnea Sundberg finished 1-2 in the 200-yard backstroke. The two events Harvard...
...Taking the microphone at a forum on socioeconomic diversity last April, a Harvard undergraduate opened up about the culture shock he had experienced after arriving in Cambridge as a freshman. The student, who hailed from a working-class background, said he found himself alienated by the wine-and-cheese atmosphere on campus. He then gestured to the back of the room...
...promoting the program, Conant evoked Thomas Jefferson’s idea of a “natural aristocracy of talents and virtue” and the need to provide equal opportunity to intellectually capable citizens, regardless of social background. Conant tied the expansion of Harvard’s student body to “the welfare of the nation,” as he wrote in his memoir, “My Several Lives...
...student from a blue-collar background, I was rather appalled by the wealth of the place,” Fitzsimmons said. “To say I had a chip on my shoulder would be a wild understatement...