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...South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris...
...seats of U.S. Congress while they account for 52 percent of the population. It wasn’t until 1948 that a woman, Margaret Chase Smith, became elected to the Senate in her own right. And it would take 54 more years before a woman, Nancy Pelosi, would earn the top leadership position in a national party in the House of Representatives...
...Business school professors are very wealthy by academic standards but not paid well by corporate standards,” said Shosana R. Dobrow ’97, a Currier House residential tutor and fifth-year doctoral candidate in organizational behavior. “Our MBA counterparts will out-earn us tremendously...
...It’s early in the game yet, but [Holzapfel and Howard] are two very impressive oarsmen,” Parker says. “But they’re also two very impressive people. You can see that they earn a lot of respect from the other oarsmen and I think that’s going to have a very important impact on the squad...
Harvard fans of the Boston Red Sox erupted into celebration last night when their team triumphed, 10-3, over the New York Yankees, winning their fourth straight game to earn a spot in the World Series. Harvard Red Sox fans reveled in the long-awaited victory, flooding the Yard and causing police to close down Mass...