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While they say that none of the major deans make sense—some too old, some too involved, some too conten—faculty and administrators thought that the next provost could well come from the ranks of department chairs, program directors and academic deans. In addition, administrators and...
With 54 electoral votes, California isn't used to getting the cold shoulder from Washington. But if the plight of the state's ratepayers hasn't forced Bush to rethink the wisdom of price caps, the plight of its Republicans may have. Control of the House in next year's...
But that resolve was never found. Wente had sunk Harvard's momentum right along with that last-second shot. Up until that point, the Crimson had been every bit the contender for its first-ever Ivy title. For the first time in eons, the league race was wide open, and...
"We have to respect [Yale] as a very fast crew, but we also know that we're a contender," Bloom said. "We hope that we can turn the tables."
Although the team's ability to bounce back from league defeats reflects the team's determination to prove itself as a legitimate contender, its poor Ivy record gave the Crimson a No. 7 seed entering the Ivy tournament.