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Befitting a season opener, the Harvard men’s water polo team began the 2008 campaign with strong play accompanied by clear areas for improvement. Looking to build on a very successful 2007, the Crimson (1-1) kicked off the year close to home, competing at the Cambridge Invitational at MIT. Harvard battled two non-conference foes in the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center over the weekend, steamrolling Washington & Jefferson 18-7 on Saturday night before falling to No. 20 California Baptist 17-10 yesterday morning. Despite the offensive onslaught that brought 28 goals in two games, co-captain...
...knew we didn’t bring our A-games Saturday,” Bode said. “We took it shot by shot Sunday and played much better because of it.” “Getting a win to start is a great building block,” Rhoads said. Harvard enters the season with very high expectations. A dominant display in the Ivy League championships last spring placed the Crimson atop the League for the first time, a feat Harvard appears capable of repeating. “I am confident in our level this year...
...inventing everything. The creatively exhaustive part isn't the big stuff - having to coming up with the people, or the town - but the really detailed stuff. You're creating a table, and so you have to say how many glasses are on the table, and you have to build the glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange way somebody buttons their coat, or a weird way someone has of standing. In fiction those are by far the most difficult things to fabricate because it's hard to make those things seem...
...Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment is the largest in higher education, though it trails Princeton’s $16 billion endowment on a per-capita basis. Under increasing scrutiny, Harvard and other wealthy universities have defended their sub-five percent payout rates as necessary to build a cushion against periods of financial downturn. Several of Harvard’s schools are heavily dependent on endowment money to fund their operating budgets. While some Harvard schools, like the School of Public Health, draw most operating revenue through grants and tuition, others, such as the Faculties of Arts and Sciences...
...expects to distribute some $600 million in aid in 2008, making it one of the largest NGOs in the world. Contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development and funds from private donors are enabling it to build roads in Afghanistan and provide grants to small businesses in Iraq, among other projects...