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Harvard University police Lt. Larry Murphy's specialty is V.I.P. protection--which might explain his penchant for special treatment. Murphy, the acting chief of police and the leading contender within the force for the soon-to-be vacant chief post, is in charge of obtaining bus service for the University...
Three weeks into the Ivy League football season, Pennsylvania is emerging as a unexpected contender for the Ivy crown, but Princeton still looms on top as the team to beat this year.
Rupp was a contender in Harvard's recent presidential search.
Yet another contender has entered the battle for personal health care dollars in Harvard Square.
Profet's many admirers in academia quickly lauded the new theory. "She has a brilliant hypothesis and substantial evidence. I'm curious to see if it holds up," says Dr. Randolph Nesse, a psychiatry professor at the University of Michigan. "It's the only serious contender for a plausible evolutionary...