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...sympathetic NCAA selection committee, and for the Crimson, its first NCAA tournament birth in a decade.But the 2007 season has taken an entirely different route. Through four contests, Harvard sits at the bottom of the conference standings, the only Ivy League team without a win. And in stark contrast with an ’06 squad captained by a defensemen and a defense-minded midfielder, this year’s Crimson has struggled mightily to find leadership in its own zone.“There have been a lot of defensive breakdowns that have been the result of miscommunications...
...Contrast those upbeat numbers with the ones found in a 2006 study authored by Thomas Hertz for the Center for American Progress: Individuals born into the bottom 20 percent of income earners have only a one percent chance of ending up in the top five percent...
...genre was due. Hill’s book on personal achievement is based on portraits of a long departed generation, men like John D. Rockefeller and Thomas Edison. And Peale, a Christian minister, appealed to a straight-laced 50s set. “The Secret,” in contrast, has a slick, contemporary feel: light on the religion, heavy on the spirituality, and sprinkled with allusions to quantum physics...
...contrast, the College cannot do that type of recruiting for transfer students, and Fitzsimmons classified this smaller pool as very good but “self-selected...
...hospitalizations as an excuse to publish scores of eroticized, disapproving reports of Wellesley life. The Boston Herald went so far as to grace its front page with the headline, “Wellesley Girls Gone Wild: college students end night in ER after lesbian bash.” By contrast, only pitiable coverage was provided by local media when, months earlier, more than 25 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale football game...