Word: duking
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...world around us. The Economist launches into an inexplicable picture-book hard-sell of Harvard: its $6.2 billion endowment with plans to raise $2.1 billion more; its annual budget, about the size the Nicaragua's GDP; its irresistible money-powered magnetism for stealing scholars like Henry Louis Gates form Duke and Cornel West from Princeton; its well-funded research in the hard sciences and renovations of the Yard; its perpetually high national rankings. In excited summary, The Economist raves; "the results are splendid...
Applying to Harvard was the result of chance. I never planned on it: I was determined to attend Duke, because of its renowned writing program and because it had a reputation as a fun place. And I did not waver until the Christmas I flew out to Boston to see my sister, who was then a junior at Boston University. I spent two weeks there, and on the last day, we toured the Harvard campus. There was something aboutwalking around the Yard for the first time thatevoked all manner of intellectual fantasy for me.I imagined the classes, the philosophicaldiscussions...
Bringing Harvard's once-beleaguered Department of Afro-American Studies into a new era is DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had been at Duke University for only one year when Harvard grabbed him. Bitter Duke students joked that Gates got his nickname, "Skip," because he jumped so frequently from...
...that most should stay on estrogen for the long haul. Unnatural as that sounds, doctors argue that life after menopause is itself somewhat unnatural. "As women have lived increasingly longer lives, they are facing problems their grandmothers never faced," says Dr. Charles Hammond, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center. "At the turn of the century, women died soon after their ovaries quit." Now they live to face heart disease, osteoporosis, increased fractures -- problems that may be prevented in part by taking estrogen...
That gave Harvard some momentum for the upcoming Heptagonal Championships. It was widely believed that Cornell and Borwn would duke it out for the top two spots of the tournament, and the Big Red and the Bears did finish 1-2. But the it was a blowout for Cornell, earning 128 to Brown...