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...He’s as much of a competitor as the other players, but he knows when to back off and to gave positive feedback,” Offsay said. “He’s been the stable guy the team can look to, particularly in comparison to the other coaches we’ve had in the past...
...initially just so surprised and excited,” said Scott, who spent the summer doing research among Native Americans in Oklahoma by means of the Mellon Foundation grant. Scott said that the AISES award was particularly meaningful because Harvard has a comparatively lower representation of Native Americans in comparison to other colleges. Currently the Harvard chapter of AISES only has eight members. “[Scott’s] success will really do a lot to strengthen the presence of AISES on campus.” said Lee Bitsoi, AISES’ faculty advisor. Bitsoi said that the group?...
Because they are both Catholic, Italian-American conservative federal judges who hail from Trenton, N.J., Alito and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have often been viewed as brothers in arms--so much so that Alito earned the nickname Scalito among many court watchers. But the comparison is misleading. Throughout Alito's career--from his time as an Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned...
...BaumbachSamuel Goldwyn Films4 stars Many filmgoers will likely have an urge to compare Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” to Wes Anderson’s cult classic, “The Royal Tenenbaums.” The comparison isn’t entirely unjustified: both films chronicle the disintegration of elite New York City families headed by vain and delusional patriarchs. Also, Baumbach and Anderson are collaborators—Baumbach co-wrote Anderson’s 2004 film “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou...
...these people by December 1 the world will be tacitly consenting to an additional million or so deaths,” Owais Siddiqui ’07 added. Huma Farid ’06, who organized the event, said the media response was insufficient in comparison to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami that hit the region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people are injured, that children are being operated on without anesthesia, that people don’t have food and shelter...