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...Tenure is the main factor contributing to the loss of junior faculty, Assistant DUS Bear Braumoeller said...
...long years ago. The Terriers (16-8-2, 13-6-1 Hockey East) have lifted nine trophies in that time alone, which is one less than Harvard’s title total since the tournament’s inception. “I think it’s a factor more as an asset for [Boston University],” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said of the Terriers’ win streak. “I personally didn’t feel any added pressure [because of it].” “It?...
...saves. “It was a great hockey game,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The goaltenders were tremendous. We had our chances—we mounted a lot of pressure at different sports during the game. But again, goaltending was the factor tonight, at both ends of the ice.”The Crimson stormed out of the gates at the start, launching 21 shots on net in the opening period. However, as Shipe got settled, the pace of the game slowed, and its power-play chances disappeared, Harvard’s offensive...
...Local politics, too, are a complicating factor. Militant Danish Muslims helped push Arabs to join the fray after feeling ignored at home. Some moderate European Muslims claim that the militants sought Arab backing in part as a way of winning financial contributions from wealthy, oil-producing countries. Now that the Danish cartoons have become a cause celebre, local grassroots pressure is building on pro-Western Muslim regimes. Such governments are more susceptible than ever, given how the cartoon controversy arose amid a wave of unprecedented Islamist gains in Middle East elections. While governments look for a way out and protesters...
...sentiment echoed by dozens of athletes in these sports. Some skaters, in fact, do get hitched. All that time in close quarters breeds a panoply of team dynamics - lasting friendships, near psychic synchronicity, petty sniping and, in the case of the skaters, love, marriage and divorce. "The codependency factor? It's through the roof," says Pavle Jovanovic, who lives in Calgary, Alberta, with Steve Mesler and Brock Kreitzburg, his close friends and teammates in Hays' four-man bobsled. "I'm always telling [Mesler] just because we live together, we don't have to do everything together all day. He tortures...