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...margin, thanks in large part to junior faceoff-specialist John Henry Flood’s .545 win percentage at midfield.“It’s just my job to go out there and just try to pick up the ball,” Flood said after his game against the Big Green, downplaying a performance in which he controlled 25 of 30 faceoffs.But what can’t be downplayed are the season’s dramatic moments, the most unforgettable being what is arguably the most memorable in Harvard lacrosse history.It ended when Cohen scored...
...were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to get married. America was facing a “man shortage,” the article said, citing new research by two Yale University sociologists and a Harvard economist.The results of the study, which were received with a flood of attention, perplexed Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and feminist Susan C. Faludi ‘81. It was then-in response to the cover of Newsweek, rather than the glossy pages of a fashion rag-that the investigation that eventually produced Faludi’s best-selling book...
...engine of muscle, bone and congenial will crashing down--that moves us. In the days since Barbaro's accident and surgery, the horse--now housed in a 13-ft. by 11-ft. stall at the University of Pennsylvania's George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals--has received a flood of cards he can't read, endless baskets of fruit he won't finish, and flowers he may or may not smell. Tens of thousands of dollars and untold hours of effort will be spent on his care, all for an animal that--his potential $30 million in breeding fees...
...truth is, New Orleans, if hit, will flood. How badly depends on the hurricane. In his book The Storm (Viking; 320 pages), out this week, Louisiana State University researcher Ivor van Heerden argues that Katrina wasn't the mythical Big One, a frightening conclusion for a city entering a new hurricane season. The storm made landfall east of New Orleans as a fast-moving Category 3, he notes, but the winds that lashed the city--weakened by wetlands and miles of subdivisions--registered only as a Category 1. Van Heerden, deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center in Baton Rouge...
...Broadmoor, Alicia Hansen is feeling pretty satisfied that she took $30,000 in flood-insurance money and raised her house. She has taken all the funds Red Cross offered and plans to use a tax credit on her new solar paneling. Neighbors now want to raise their houses too but find prices for the job have skyrocketed 50% in the past few months. Hansen added another story as she repaired the house. "And below, it's all patio--party city," she says...