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...ever,” he writes in an e-mail. “Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent...
...Lawrence and against Quinnipiac but dropped three other Ivy games, including a 4-3 loss to perennial bottom-feeder Yale.On the other hand, Harvard notched two crucial non-conference wins in December, logging victories in 1-0 nailbiters at New Hampshire and North Dakota—a factor that would weigh heavily in the NCAA selection committee’s eventual decision to award the Crimson a No. 2 seed.“It does a lot for our confidence,” said junior center Kevin Du after the trip to North Dakota. “We proved...
...scoring five, and hitting a moonshot home run. All year long, Klimkiewicz was the critical cog in the middle of the Crimson order and an imposing presence for opposing hurlers. The masher’s team-leading seven home runs upped his career total to 25, while the intimidation factor earned him a league-leading 26 walks. And after going unrecognized for three seasons by All-Ivy voters, Klimkiewicz was finally named to the first team in 2006 with a line of .331/.471/.559, just missing out on Player of the Year honors. Sounds like the man deserves...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington...
...Sense of the World is inspiring--but in the real way, the way most "inspirational" books aren't. Holman wasn't a Fear Factor thrill seeker; he was a deeply Romantic figure, a man ransacking the globe for peace of mind even as he fled the demons of disappointment and bitterness nipping at his heels. A celebrity in his time, Holman subsided after his death into the darkness in which he lived. He, and readers everywhere, owes Roberts thanks for leading him back into the light...