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...were feuding with at least four gang families. "They are the most primitive type," says Menachem Amir, a respected Israeli criminologist. "They specialize in violence and extortion. You'd find men like them in the Roman markets of antiquity. Nothing's changed." They weren't quite 007 villains: they fought pitched battles over who would control the $50 million market in recycled plastic bottles...
...game tied for first in the Ivies with Brown at 4-1—was nothing if not physical. “I give our kids a tremendous amount of credit for everything they’ve had to overcome, and the way they’ve fought and persevered, and I couldn’t be prouder of them,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. “And I give Harvard credit for coming up with some big plays when they had to, and certainly they are a very good football team...
...stretch.“We should be able to handle the physical side of going to overtime over and over again,” junior defender Lizzy Nichols said. “I think it’s a sign of mental toughness to go through the hard-fought battle and get through,” she added.HIGH IMPACTIf Harvard wasn’t making excuses for its performance by citing fatigue or game conditions, it certainly wasn’t going to blame injuries. But losses sustained both before and during the game might have hurt the Crimson down...
...Harvard women’s volleyball team, the last weekend of the fall proved to be exemplary of the entire season.The Crimson’s final weekend of the 2008 campaign saw a resounding victory in one night juxtaposed with a characteristically hard-fought loss the next day. Harvard (10-16, 5-9 Ivy) crushed Columbia (6-18, 0-14) on Friday in a 3-0 shutout that featured double-digit kills from three different players. Continuing its New York road trip the next day, the Crimson again thrived off of a number of offensive performances, but ultimately fell...
...start of the tenure movement paralleled similar labor struggles during the late 19th century. Just as steel and auto workers fought against unsafe working conditions and unlivable wages, teachers too demanded protection from parents and administrators who would try to dictate lesson plans or exclude controversial materials like Huck Finn from reading lists. In 1887, nearly 10,000 teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn...