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Both squads boast balanced offensive attacks, splitting up about 400 yards of total offense per game almost equally between the air and ground games...
There are teams, of course, that sport a diverse range of concentrations. Just as the women’s lightweight crew leans towards the hard sciences, their male lightweight counterparts can boast of the one of four classics concentrators in all of varsity athletics, one of five computer science majors and one of two religion majors. One women’s heavyweight rower, Anna R. Rosenblum ’06, is one of just a handful of classical archaeology majors in the college. Morning practices notwithstanding, the crews are, percentage-wise, among the most diverse teams on campus?...
TONY RONZONE LIKES TO BOAST that he knows a word or two in several foreign languages. He might be better off if he didn't try to use them all at once. A few weeks ago, Ronzone, director of international scouting for the NBA champion Detroit Pistons, appeared at a basketball clinic in Mexico, where he attempted to teach a young Spanish-speaking prospect how best to position himself around the rim. "Demand the qiu!" Ronzone shouted. "Get your cerveza under the basket!" Qiu (pronounced chee-yo) is Chinese for ball. Cerveza means beer in Spanish. Ronzone may have confused...
...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...
Fitzsimmons said he hopes to increase this number, but he said that “realistically over time it is usually a three- to five-year window” before the admissions office will be able to boast significant changes in the number of low-income families at Harvard...