Word: brackets
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...team (7-5, 4-3 Ivy) fell to Trinity (14-3), 6-3, Friday morning in the first round of the season-ending eight-team Howe Cup, but rallied with convincing 9-0 victories over Stanford (6-6) and Dartmouth (10-6) over the weekend to win the consolation bracket and take fifth place in the tournament. The fifth-place finish capped a long season for the young team, which started only freshman and sophomores for most of the year. With only one senior on the roster, nearly the entire squad returns next year. “I am very...
...Increase in the suicide rate among Americans ages 45 to 54 from 1999 to 2004. Among women in that age bracket, the increase...
...This is not a candidate who wants to leave anything to chance, even the interpretation of words that the Governor manages to bracket with unneeded quotation marks. ("'Small varmints,' if you will.") One would be forgiven for not believing the governor when he said, as he did at each stop, "Elections can be fun things...
...termination of loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 annually, reducing tuition payments for families in that bracket by several thousand dollars per term. The University also announced that it will increase financial support for graduate students in order to make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions, a step that will no doubt increase the quality of undergraduate teaching fellows while also making a graduate degree more affordable...
...those families will only be required to pay 10 percent of their income to the College in tuition, instead of 16 percent. Let me be the first, but surely not the last, Harvard alumnus to state that as long as the University gives aid to families in that income bracket, I will not give one penny to the University. Enabling families to buy second homes, SUVs, and designer clothing is not the purpose of financial aid, or so I had thought. But I can cannot help but conclude that that is the ultimate effect of Harvard?...