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...first half. But Harvard came back stronger in the second half, letting in just a single shot thanks to defensive adjustments and a change in attitude. “[In the second half] we stepped up and played a little looser and were able to go after it better,” said Crimson head coach Sue Caples. The Huskies (8-0, 1-0 Big East) were led by four-time Big East Offensive Player of the Week Loren Sherer, who netted her 12th and 13th goals of the season in the first frame. Sherer’s first goal...
...addition to medication. “We really believe that there are wonderfully creative people in our midst,” said Daniel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. “They need time, opportunity, and space to really do their thing, and they know far better than anybody else how to do it.” For Huybers, whose work in climatology earned him the Fellowship, the award is an opportunity to further his research. “I want to better understand how the climate works,” he wrote in an e-mailed...
...that the machine creates will appeal to an older generation of readers that never embraced online technology in the first place. With this new machine, nothing is lost as a result of a technological transition. If anything, the printed book, still the fundamental core of reading for many, is better preserved...
...called a work of speculation - "What if something happened?" "What if somebody did this?" - or a practical utopia. We haven't had many practical utopias. Russell Jacoby, a professor out in California, wrote a book called The End of Utopia in 1999, which argues that the idea of imagining better futures has diminished, as we wallow more and more in our desperate state of societal and governmental decay. So I tried to revive the genre, so to speak...
...through year after year, as many civic advocates do, being overwhelmed by the corporate lobbies and their allies in government, you say to yourself, 'If we only had more media, if we only had more money, if we only had more field organizers, if we only had better ideas and strategies.' That's what produced the book. What if we had a collection of superrich elderly, retired people who are very dismayed at the state of their beloved country, and what if they got together and really poured money in? What would happen? And what would happen is a major...