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Harvard would never lose again during the regular season. The Crimson came back the next day with a 20-point blowout of defending Ivy champion Penn at the Palestra going into exam break. Getting contributions from all of its players was a key to victory...
...Saturdays ago, a group of students scrambled into seats at Brother Rice High School in suburban Detroit to take the SAT college entrance exam. Some of their feet didn't touch the floor. Why? Because dozens of the students were seventh-graders or younger. One was in third grade. That same morning, my own daughters, ages 6, 10 and 12, were at home, watching cartoons and eating Pop-Tarts. It didn't occur to me to measure their smarts against those of high-schoolers. Or even to fake doing so, like "boy genius" Justin Chapman's mother, who falsely claimed...
...left out one critical consideration: the cost of treatment. When a mammogram or breast exam reveals a lump or calcification, how does an uninsured woman pay for a sonogram or biopsy, let alone surgery and radiation or chemotherapy? What good is early detection if you can't afford treatment? JUDITH PLAYER New York City...
...people gave the Crimson a chance this weekend. And they had good reason not to—Harvard had looked lifeless for most of the last month during it’s 2-8-1 post-exam swoon, and it played with virtually no emotion in its final regular season game, a 3-0 loss at Princeton...
Still, Friday’s win didn’t prove that Harvard had emerged from its slump. The Crimson knew it could play well under favorable circumstances. Even during it’s post-exam swoon, Harvard had its moments of dominating hockey, playing well for stretches against Vermont, St. Lawrence and Yale. Yet these flashes of promise were quickly extinguished by lopsided losses in the Crimson’s next games...