Word: elizabeth
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...teammate Maddi Martin. Martin gathered the ball directly in front of the net and slipped a shot past Crimson senior goaltender Kylie Stone. Soon thereafter, Harvard’s offense exploded. The first goal came on a penalty corner with seven minutes remaining in the half. Junior back Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon took the corner, and the ball was passed around to freshman midfielder Carly Dickson at the top of the circle. Dickson ripped a shot that sent Vermont goaltender Brooke Crane diving. Crane managed to deflect the attempt, but Goodman-Bacon swooped in and buried the rebound into the cage...
...confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky...
...University recently announced its second-largest fundraising total in history for the year ending June 30, though Rogers noted there tends to be a delay between economic turmoil and effects on philanthropy.Across the country, other universities are grappling with the question of how this crisis will impact fundraising, said Elizabeth Crabtree, president of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement.“We’re all trying to answer that question right now for our individual institutions,” said Crabtree, who is also director for prospect development at Brown.But Crabtree expressed optimism about long-term prospects...
...first-year law student Elizabeth P. Benton said that some students felt the simplified grading system could disadvantage women or minorities in the job hunt—both those applying for jobs at law firms and those who are seeking clerkships for judges—since objective comparisons of job candidates will become more difficult...
...Scientists and the general public had attributed the bad decisions teens make to hormonal changes," says Elizabeth Sowell, a UCLA neuroscientist who has done seminal MRI work on the developing brain. "But once we started mapping where and when the brain changes were happening, we could say, Aha, the part of the brain that makes teenagers more responsible is not finished maturing...