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...NCAA) rules. Former Harvard coaches have accused Amaker of lowering the team’s academic standards for recruited athletes. Such accusations should be taken seriously, for Harvard is first and foremost an academic institution, not part of an athletic farm system. Sacrificing the reputation of the school to boost the reputation of the basketball sends the wrong message: Harvard is right to be proud of its team’s academic index, which is currently higher than all other Ivy League schools. That being said, while the very appearance of lower standards is damaging to Harvard?...
...rocker Jeff Healey before he turned 1. So at 3 he started playing the guitar on his lap, a style that became his trademark. As a teen, he gigged in Toronto clubs before starting his best-known group, the Jeff Healey Band. The blues-rock trio, who got a boost from their role in the Patrick Swayze film Road House, made it big with the achy, affecting 1989 hit Angel Eyes. On the side, Healey played jazz and deejayed a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio show drawing on his collection of 25,000 old 78-r.p.m. jazz records. Healey, who battled...
...chance for its first-ever title.Maybe Cornell even tried to get its star back to Cambridge in time for a Willis Reed-esque appearance late in the second half. Locked in a low-scoring slugfest with Harvard, the Big Red certainly could have used the boost. But Maduka didn’t show up.Cornell lost 51-48 in an ugly game of bricks, long rebounds, and a few clutch Harvard free throws down the stretch.The endless string of hypotheticals can begin. What if she had been there? What if Dartmouth’s buzzer-beater had rimmed out on Friday...
...will be the first to matriculate under Harvard’s new financial aid program that will cut the cost of attending the College for families who make between $120,000 and $180,000 to 10 percent of total income. Fitzsimmons said that the new initiative would probably boost yield, though he added that the effect might be muted now that Yale, Stanford, and Brown have rolled out similar programs...
...scientists with difficulties getting potentially-lucrative research into the marketplace, a new Harvard program will continue providing a much needed boost. After funding six Harvard discoveries last year, school officials announced earlier this month that they will be launching a second round of the Accelerator Fund, a pool of private funding earmarked for University life-sciences researchers struggling to enter the commercial arena. “Most of our technologies in life sciences are very embryonic in nature. They’re very early stage technologies,” said Issac T. Kohlberg, director of Harvard’s Office...