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...efforts finally paid off. Freshman Katherine Sheeleigh corralled a long pass from the midfield, and after beating her defender, she set up sophomore Devon Sherman at the top of the box. Sherman threaded a beautiful ball into the left side of the box that Wideroff was able to finish off with a sprawling slide that beat the keeper to the ball, burying it in the back of the net.It proved to the game-winner, the second in a row for the first-year rising star.“I thought the keeper was going to come...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham and Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Shutout Defense, Wideroff's Offense Lead to Victories | 9/16/2007 | See Source »

...than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school, and 41% don't finish college. "We're losing them at every stage in education," says Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which wrote the report with public-policy development firm Civic Enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gifted Child Left Behind? | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Rebuilding requires patience, and thanks to depth of its sophomore talent, the Harvard men’s golf team finally saw a payoff for last season’s rebuilding with a strong finish at the season-opening Mid-Pines Intercollegiate.Competing in a crowded thirteen-team field in Southern Pines, N.C., the Crimson managed a fourth-place finish by posting a three-round team score of 870. Harvard teed off at the Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club looking to build on a strong finish last season as the then-freshmen gained valuable playing experience.Though East Carolina took...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Golf Takes Fourth in North Carolina | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

...carry over next weekend when we play the defending Northern champions [St. Francis]. We really have a lot of potential this year and I feel we can keep going as the season progresses and keep getting better.”HARVARD 13, YALE 5In an appropriate finish to a stellar weekend, Harvard captured its fourth win of the weekend against the visiting Yalies.Having held leads of 8-1 at the half and 12-4 at the end of three quarters, the Crimson dominated possession throughout the match, once again relying on its defense to spark its deadly counter-attacks. Sophomore...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Water Polo Launches Season With Undefeated Weekend | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...will go to the airport." Within seconds her pink headscarf was swallowed by a sea of uniformed officers. As party leaders swarmed out of their cars to shout slogans they were picked up one by one by apologetic police officers who politely allowed them to finish their impromptu press conferences first. "We were ordered to arrest all the party leaders," admitted one police officer after he helped shove the party's information secretary, Ahsan Iqbal, roughly into a truck. When asked why, he just shrugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Musharraf Foe's Aborted Return | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

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