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Columbia and Cornell each boast nearly double the percentage of Pell Grant recipients as Harvard’s 9 percent, the second-lowest in the Ivy League. At Columbia, 1,023 students received Pell Grants in the 2001-02 academic year; at Harvard, where the student body is larger by 2,000, only about...
...Lawrence—After a very off year, Joe Marsh’s squad looks to start the climb back to the top of the ECAC. The team will play well—the Saints boast one of college hockey’s hardest schedules to tune up for the ECAC’s conference schedule—and Marsh always has them playing hard. But the talent isn’t yet there for a high league finish...
...loudspeaker. “Folks, many of you are asking, are our haunted houses suitable for your children? Only you,” he proclaims with Smokey the Bear certainty, “can make that decision. We do aim to scare.” He goes on to boast that the museum is “full of London-made wax figures...
Unlike today’s Harvard freshman classes, which often boast a number of junior national rowers, many of the Rude and Smooth had less auspicious beginnings to their rowing careers...
...been relentless in enforcing a media blackout. The war appears on TV only when there is an incident too large to ignore--like the Chechen suicide bombing in the neighboring republic of Northern Ossetia in August that killed 50 people and destroyed a military hospital--or when ministers boast that the rebels are on their last legs. Russian media owners know that critical coverage of Chechnya is the quickest way to get shut down, and foreign media are officially allowed there only on closely controlled government trips...