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...From these prominent organizations we can sense that the data publicized by the admissions office is very opaque—while it gives a racial breakdown, it reveals nothing about ethnicity, self-identification, or dynamics between ethnicities. The question, of course, is whether a painstakingly detailed ethnic breakdown is relevant. After all, Caucasians come from all over Europe, and we usually don’t distinguish Irish from Scot from Belgian. The circumstance that makes Asian American diversity important, however, is that this group is particularly new to the country; Asians only first began arriving in the late nineteenth century...
...statistics don't give a sense of the chaotic scene on the ground during the marathon. Beyond the very real challenges posed by the weather, the problems included a communication breakdown between event organizers and competitors, a water shortage that left novices dangerously dehydrated, and a wave of anger among experienced runners over the decision to cancel the event when some were as little as a mile away from the finish line...
With 1:19 left and the Crimson up, 28-24, a mental breakdown led to a 40-yard touchdown and a last-second loss, the first in seven years in the team’s season opener. The defense gave up 153 yards rushing and 339 through the air to go along with the four touchdowns. Harvard managed just one sack in the game after posting six in its 2006 debut...
...Harvard enters the game following a dramatic 31-28 loss to Holy Cross in the team’s season opener last week. It’s the first time the Crimson enters its game against the Bears winless since 2000. And after last week’s defensive breakdown that led to the game-winning score by the Crusaders with just 19 seconds to play, Harvard coach Tim Murphy made finishing drives a point of emphasis during the week’s practices.It’ll be especially important against Brown, following the Bears’ surprising success...
...Platoon. Not on this scale. But that's part of what the movie shows, visualizes, dramatizes - the peer pressure, the tension. [My Lai] happened. It's a fact. It's history. I'm not seeking to denigrate the average soldier. There was a breakdown in that division and there was a breakdown from the top. And I think it had a lot to do with the war policy, which was basically body counts, kill ratios, search and destroy, free-fire zones - these concepts, when they are allowed to grow, grow out of hand. And they got out of hand...