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...Madick, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, the Crimson compiled a 2.47 ERA, second in the league to Cornell by just .03. Backing Madick up in the rotation were fellow junior Amanda Watkins and freshman Dana Roberts. Watkins went 7-1 with a 2.54 ERA, good enough for eighth in the league, while Roberts recorded a 7-5 record and a 2.60 ERA, ranking ninth in the league. On the field, the Crimson first found real success over spring break. Competing in Macon, Ga., for the Mercer Nissan Invitational, Harvard won four straight games after dropping its opener, beating...
...going 9-10 through the regular season, Harvard took third at the Northern Division Championships. The finish was not good enough to punch an automatic ticket to the Eastern Championships, but after a couple of anxious days of waiting, the selection committee awarded Harvard an at-large bid. The eighth-seeded Crimson finished eighth, but the expereince will no doubt pay off over the next few years. “While we got better we are still young so a lot of it is just a seasoning issue,” Farrar said. “The experience of doing...
...existing houses—Adams, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop—were built for a normal capacity of 1,846 undergraduates, according to the October 1957 issue of Harvard Today. By 1957, that number had ballooned to 2,955. With the funds from the PHC, an eighth house was to be built by 1959. In March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe Streets had been chosen as the site for the new House and would cost about $5 million to construct. At the time, the site...
...Some Cambodians may be wondering whether an eighth tray should be added to the ceremony, this one holding a pool of oil. Around 2010, a cluster of offshore fields is expected to begin yielding significant amounts of oil and natural gas, radically changing the Cambodian economy. Optimistic estimates suggest that future oil revenue could dwarf the country's current GDP. But will any of this money trickle down to Cambodia's poor? Economists aren't sure, warning of a Nigerian-style oil curse that could simply make a privileged few very rich and leave the vast majority of people penniless...
...achieving its objectives remains an open question. Fourth-grade reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) rose sharply from 1999 to 2004, but most of the gains occurred before the law took effect. The achievement gap appears to be narrowing in some spots--fourth- and eighth-grade math scores for minorities, for instance--but not others. The gap between white and black eighth-graders has widened slightly in math, for example. Gains for eighth-graders in general remain stubbornly elusive...