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With the conference opener against defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth looming, the Harvard women’s basketball team isn’t losing focus...
Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and current No. 4, is playing in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the most competitive chess tournament to be played in the U.K. capital in 25 years. Tall, handsome and expressionless, he looks exactly as a man who has mastered a game of nearly infinite variation should: like a high-end assassin. Today, however, he is getting methodically and mercilessly crushed...
...many scientists, just watching the data come in is a pleasure all by itself. "Kepler is working so amazingly well," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy, a champion planet hunter in his own right and a member of the Kepler science team, "that the light curves [that is, the dips in light caused by transiting planets] look like they come from a textbook, not a real instrument...
...It’s the culmination of work she’s been doing for many years,” Fried said of Warren's performance in Washington. “She has been a champion of the financial situation of mainly families and middle-class families, so it is very natural that she is continuing that work now in Washington...
Warren—an Oklahoma native and formerly a registered Republican—was not always a champion of the middle class, according to the Globe. But after years of study as a bankruptcy law scholar, she came to the conclusion that many families who file for bankruptcy or foreclose on their homes are not primarily at fault for the situations in which they find themselves...