Word: culprit
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Beyond the issue of bad beginnings, Harvard’s defense has been the chief culprit during the losing streak. The Crimson allowed Penn and Brown to shoot well over 50 percent and Yale to shoot 49 percent in the last three games, raising the team’s field goal percentage defense to .450 for the season...
...study, universities are forced to compete for these candidates with major corporations offering lucrative contracts. Brown University economics professor Glenn C. Loury, the first black professor to be tenured at Harvard, said he doesn’t think universities are reluctant to let in African Americans but that the culprit is the lack of qualified candidates. “The constraint here is on the supply side,” he said. “The problem is that the universities are producing relatively few black American graduates who are both interested in economics and qualified to study...
...whole genre. The rap world is full of MCs claiming to suffer from “jacked” or “bitten” rhymes.The Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough hip-hop hit “Rapper’s Delight” is a classic culprit; the song liberally incorporates lyrics from Grandmaster Caz’s—of old-school favorites the Cold Crush Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar criticism of Elvis, claiming that the so-called “King...
...large universities noticed a key difference from Harvard. After spending the fall semester in Paris, Amanda M. Gann ’06 says she felt a transformation in how she viewed time management. “At Harvard, people overextend themselves and I was sort of the worst culprit of that before I left,” says Gann, who studied at La Sorbonne. What separates Panarelli’s and Datar’s experiences from students like Gann’s is perhaps the tremendous difference in lifestyle between urban cities like Paris and poverty-stricken countries like...
...build-up of culinary debris is the latest culprit in dining hall closings, as the Eliot House dining hall shut its doors in the middle of lunch yesterday, forcing students to relocate to neighboring Kirkland House for the remainder of the afternoon. Eliot and Kirkland Dining Halls’ Customer Service Manager Stephen J. Mills said that as soon as staff found the sink clogged with scraps of food and plastic wrapping, a plumbing company was called. Besides the dishwashing area, no other parts of the dining hall were affected. Many students said their afternoons were not disrupted...