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...fourth consecutive year, the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has named Harvard the world’s leading university. The University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Yale University tied for second position. Harvard also claimed top status within the categories of life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The University ranked fourth in natural sciences, and 15th among top technological universities. In that last category, the only one in which Harvard did not make the top five, Cambridge neighbor Massachusetts Institute of Technology led the pack. The education company Quacquarelli Symonds compiles the data...
Current Crimson head coach Tim Murphy, who is seeking the fourth Ivy title of his tenure, marvels at how the 1968 Game remains a touchstone for many of the team’s fans, including one who gave him a recording from that distant fall...
...quality of its outcome. Competition pushes all participants to be sharper, more innovative, and more accountable. A multiplicity of voices and platforms widens the scope and depth of issues raised during the campaign. Though Sundquist has long been an obvious contender for the top UC spot as only the fourth non-junior in UC history to be elected vice president, experience, name recognition, and the clout of the UC political machine are not everything. Far more important are the vision and ideas that the UC president brings to the table. Every additional entry into the UC race increases options...
...Crimson was able to overcome a late 27-25 deficit to capture the second game, 30-28. At that point, Harvard was only one game away from a match victory. But Cornell came out sharp in the third game and led wire to wire in a sloppy fourth game to even the score at two games apiece. The Big Red hit .091 in the game four, while Harvard hit an even lower .020. “They pulled their passing together, which kept their offense in system,” Mahon said. “They are really good when...
...Iengs' arrests are the third and fourth of five former Khmer Rouge leaders targeted by the co-prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal established in Phnom Penh. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the regime's chief jailer and torturer, was the first suspect to be detained in July. Second-in-command Nuon Chea was arrested in September. Khieu Samphan, the regime's onetime head of state, is the last surviving senior leader at large and many believe that his is the fifth name...