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...just one point better than fifth-place British USA, and two points in front of Penn in sixth. Harvard, which ended its first day of the regatta in eighth place, used a key performance from freshman skipper Teddy Himler and freshman crew Grace Charles in B-division to boost the Crimson in the overall rankings. “[They] had a really fantastic Sunday afternoon,” senior captain Kyle Kovacs said. “They’re the main reason we rallied to end up fourth.” Kovacs competed as skipper in A-division with...
...banks is being put up at a punitive rate, meaning those that access the funds will be charged interest well above the central bank's base rate of 5.75%. And it's hardly a jackpot; banks are limited in how much they can draw on. The cash boost, says David Buik at BGC Partners in London, is "purely symbolic." Besides, Buik says, how much help the funds would have been to a beleaguered Northern Rock is something "we'll never know...
...Taylor's CEO for the past seven years, has been quietly restructuring the brand away from the store your grandmother loves into a showcase for top American design talent. And the business-savvy Baker just might have the right mix of creativity and cash to give the turnaround the boost it needs...
...This is a tremendous boost for the lab both in the sense of giving us outside validation that what we’re doing is interesting and important, and giving us the means to pursue our research without the restrictions of monetary issues,” said Alan Saghatelian, an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...potentially take [skills] back to Tulane,” Salahudeen says. “I don’t know if I would be as involved at Tulane [today] if I hadn’t had all those experiences at Harvard, learned all those things, and had that confidence boost.” Slattery recalls feeling less pressure to conform at Harvard than at Tulane, and Payne says he particularly enjoyed the academic environment present even in Harvard’s residential dorms—from the fact that it was not unusual for students to not have a television...