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...League championships won by Harvard’s basketball teams.None, however, belong to the men.So while the women’s team has been cutting down the nets over the years, its cohort has been left out of the Dance.To change this, Harvard brought in former Duke All-American point guard Tommy Amaker, formerly the head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan. Amaker has coached teams to where the Crimson hopes to go, having led Seton Hall to the Sweet 16 as a No. 10 seed in the 2000 NCAA Tournament and plans to get Harvard to that promised land...
...school] coming into our house,” junior forward Evan Harris says. “I can’t remember the last time that happened.”Indeed, a program of Michigan’s quality has not visited Lavietes since 1990, when Duke blitzed past Harvard, 103-61.This current matchup stems back to an agreement made between the two schools setting up a three-year, three-game series. This year marks the second game of that series, the only one scheduled to be played on the Crimson’s home floor. It is very unusual...
...even more lopsided than the last Stanford-Harvard matchup, a 100-59 win for the Cardinal on Dec. 28, 2003—the last time it reached the century mark. And it was the Crimson’s worst defeat since it opened the 1989-90 season at Duke and suffered a 130-54 drubbing at the hands of the Blue Devils. Coincidentally, Amaker served as an assistant coach for that Duke team. “I told our kids at a certain point we weren’t monitoring the score,” Amaker said...
...three panelists revealed a celebrity-crazed underbelly to their work. They identified race, sex, and celebrity as pivotal factors in making “the crimes of the century” that they cover—from the Anna Nicole Smith affair to the Duke rape scandal...
Nora Volkow Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and pioneer in the science of addiction I'd select the Duke University scientist whose pioneering work in epigenetics and genomic imprinting has uncovered a vast territory in which a gene represents less of an inexorable sentence and more of an access point for the environment to modify the genome. The trailblazing discoveries of Dr. Randy Jirtle have produced a far more complete and useful understanding of human development and diseases...