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...with Harvard's final goal, the Crimson's cushion would prove too much for the Big Green to overcome...
There is actually quite a lot to catch up on during reading period. However, my hope would be that we would always be assigned reasonable workloads during the semester so that it wouldn't accumulate so much at the end of the term. Without the cushion of a reading period, classes would be inclined to assign less readings during the term. It would not be realistic to do so much work...
Harvard maintained the 11-point cushion for much of first period, until a Brown rally pulled the Bears to within seven, 26-19, with 3:47 left to play. Following a Crimson timeout, Reinhard made a steal and went coast-to-coast for a lay-up, swinging the momentum back to Harvard...
...hand-to-hand combat, it may be because it's a skill he has practiced all his life. As rivals and reporters dig through his biography and professional record, a pattern that emerges is a gift for conflict avoidance. Being rich, to start with, provides a lot of cushion. Forbes' Princeton friend Chris Leach recalls the day in 1970 when he borrowed Forbes' brand-new, bright orange Mercury Cougar XR-7 to make a pizza run--and totaled it. When Steve found out, Leach recalls, "he just looked at me and said, 'Uh-huh.' And he called his father...
...have [Curator of the Nieman fellowshipsand former Washington editor for the New YorkTimes] Bill Kovach as a career advisor and I can'timagine a better way to cushion the impact ofhaving your paper close," he said...