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...lightweights, it will be a challenge to reassert its lost number one ranking.And for the heavyweights, Sunday will determine if the team’s streak of eight straight NCAA championship births continues.Both squads simply hope they can pass.Over the past eight seasons, the Radcliffe heavyweights have received a bid to the NCAA Championships—to which only 12 teams are invited annually—an unprecedented modern run. This year, however, the streak is in jeopardy, as the heavyweights have lost four straight regattas and post a No. 18 ranking in the country. Without a medal finish...
Last month, the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives in a bid to raise maternal leave compensation from 12 weeks to six months. Though addressed mainly to those women for whom working is not a choice, the bill also responds to a larger issue: Namely, the stubborn remnants of a corporate culture that has yet to yield to maternal imperatives...
...addition to taking a victory against Penn, Harvard defeated Denver, who received an automatic bid, and Stony Brook, who was on the bubble...
...squad and Harvard’s team racers, the Crimson took fourth at the NEISA Dinghy Championship last weekend at Brown in Providence, R.I.Unlike the more comfortable performances of previous times out, Harvard struggled to maintain its position among the top four teams that receive automatic bids to nationals, hosted this year in Charleston, S.C. The Crimson finished with 137 total points, just two ahead of fifth-place Yale.The B-division team of senior skipper Vincent Porter and senior crew Ruth Schlitz paced Harvard, finishing second overall.Captain skipper Clay Johnson and junior crew Emily Simon guided their A-division boat...
...season was only 6-6, its schedule ranked among the six toughest in Division I, which, along with quality wins against title contenders like Penn and Denver, may have factored into Harvard’s selection as one of the ten teams to receive an at-large bid...