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...pair of overtime wins, the first to the Crimson’s name, were followed by a string of three brutal defeats, it seemed the prospect of another fruitless Ivy season propelled Harvard to a strong finish. In its season finale at Jordan Field against Ivy opponent Columbia, the fate of the Crimson’s season still rested in the outcome against the Lions. With an even record in the Ivy League, Harvard’s standing would be determined by the result of this final contest. A rare penalty stroke in the game’s first half...
...even the presence of four new freshman rowers on the varsity eight could not change the Black and White’s fate. The varsity eight notched a fourth-place finish to end its year...
...United States military during the Vietnam War, most notably the presence of ROTC on campus. It was amidst the confusion and enmity so characteristic of the era that the student government—a body known as the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)—crumbled, leaving the fate of student legislature largely to a committee led by historian Merle Fainsod, the then-director of the Harvard Library...
...Prague paparazzi frenzy is driven by cutthroat competition. Seventeen years after the fall of communism, Czechs no longer fear for the fate of their democracy and many have long since tired of reading about stale politics. So, the mainstream newspapers have gone soft, and the yellow press has flourished. "We have three tabloid dailies and they are fighting for survival," says Ondrej Hoeppner, a former editor of the fourth gossip sheet that had already succumbed...
...likes to talk much about the fate of failing schools that continue to founder. Under NCLB, such schools face escalating interventions. If they miss AYP two years in a row, they must offer students a chance to transfer out. After three years, they must provide tutoring services. After five years of failure, the law says the school must be restructured, which means replacing the staff, converting to a charter school, having the state or a private company take the reins or some other intervention...