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...address. It’s not much of a speech, really, and the last portion is a rather clumsy effort at segueing into a pearl of wisdom that, in all likelihood, would never have emerged. As I was beginning to write, I wanted to stand before the assembled Commencement crowd and, more than anything, casually note just how wonderful my roommate...
Standing in front of an early-morning crowd gathered at Appleton Chapel in Harvard Yard this past April, Theda Skocpol used the word “we” 29 times. Her message, one which called for unity among the University’s different communities and factions, struck an appropriate note for the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). But it was odd for someone of whom a colleague once said, “She’s a very divisive person. Wherever she has been there’s always been conflict...
...After almost three hours of play and eight matches completed, the Crimson and Bulldogs were knotted 4-4, and only Lorentzen and Quibell’s match remained. Teammates gathered around to watch the deciding fifth game. Quibell leapt out to a quick 4-0 lead as the Yale crowd roared. Lorentzen rallied for a 7-5 advantage but Quibell tied it up again at 7. But youth would be served. Lorentzen won back the serve and the two points she needed to help hand Harvard its first Ivy title in three years and silence the rabid Bulldog hordes...
...Klitgaard, and we are concerned about that.” Klitgaard, who analyzed data from the College and the graduate schools for his report, today says the fallout took him by surprise.“We expected people to be creative and rational,” he says.A crowd nonetheless gathered in front of the president’s office and University Hall, where they called for Bok to denounce the report and terminate the study, among other demands.When asked whether Bok supported his report, Klitgaard responds, “He was fine.” Bok defended his motives...
...Jason Hartford with a second left gave Cornell the 79-77 victory. The Crimson appeared to have sloughed off the effects of the bad trip to Ithaca the next weekend, as Harvard led nemesis Princeton by six with a minute to play in front of a sell-out Lavietes crowd. As they always seem to do against Harvard, the Tigers came back in remarkable fashion, with Noah Savage nailing a baseline jumper with under a second left to give Princeton a 60-59 win.“Back-to-back losses, losing in the last second like...