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...nature of commitment, and its broad appeal to fans could merit special treatment (or in this case, exclusion), these arguments are weak and unsustainable. Surely, the commitment required to play on an athletic team far outweighs that of most other extracurricular activities, but to place a sort of achievement cap on the football team alone is unfair. Plenty of Harvard students can vouch for the fact that their extracurricular obligations place a greater burden on their studies—but no one is telling a Phillips Brooks House Association volunteer or a Crimson Key comper when their hard work must...
...owned overtime.Just 22 seconds in, Lin drove to score on a short jumper in the lane in overtime’s first possession. The Crimson struck again on a McGeary three and another Fitzgerald tip-in to put Harvard up, 68-61, with 2:30 to play and to cap the 15-0 run. The Tigers would never get closer than five, with its only points in overtime coming from six free throws by senior forward Noah Savage, who had a game-high 22 points.Princeton went the final 4:27 of regulation and the full five minutes of overtime without...
Harvard also agreed to a cap on its future carbon emissions when it inked a deal last September with Massachusetts to keep the carbon emissions from its Allston campus to 30 percent of the national standard...
...Nasrallah is one of the Arab world's great orators, but he was almost matched at the event by Mughniyah's 18-year-old son, Jihad. Dressed in crisp camouflage uniform and forage cap, Jihad Mughniyah marched briskly onto the stage and delivered a confident and impassioned speech, pledging that "the strugglers of my father and myself are ready to continue in his footsteps." The rhetoric even had hard-nosed Hizballah security men and top rank party officials dabbing their eyes with handkerchiefs as the audience burst into applause and cheers at the end of the speech...
...Take the fight over the F-22. The Pentagon has declared it wants to cap procurement at 183 planes, for $65 billion. But the Air Force wants 380 of them. "We think that [183] is the wrong number," General Bruce Carlson, the Air Force's top weapons buyer, told reporters at a Feb. 13 industry gathering. "We're committed to funding 380," he added. "We're building a program right now to do that." Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne after reading Carlson's comments in Aerospace Daily, a trade paper, and told him to remind...