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...barrier. It was great that she could clear that barrier.”Junior Favia Merritt broke the 25-second mark in the 200-meter dash, legging out the event in 24.92, good enough for second place. The Maryland native’s time was just a fraction of a second off her personal best of 24.73, which she set at last year’s Harvard-Yale meet.Freshman Claire Richardson also notched a first-time accomplishment, running the mile in under five minutes. Her 4:58.43 finish earned her third in the event. Fellow rookies Jamie Olson and Hilary...
...there a way to reduce the number of Americans who die in the workplace?’ One of the reasons I’m thrilled to come to Harvard is because the Harvard community has so much energy and ability, and I hope we can tap a fraction of that to approach these problems. Having taught at the Law School I can say that the diversity and ability of HLS students is almost beyond belief and I know from what I read that the level of creativity from the undergraduates is phenomenal. So if you have a place...
Supposedly, Americans are abandoning shared cultural pursuits for loner entertainments on our iPods and HDTVs. But thanks to technological advances, concert films are starting to envelop audiences in a way nearly as dramatic as live events, at a fraction of the price. And audiences--and the market--are responding. Acts as disparate as U2 and the Metropolitan Opera are appearing this month in multiplexes all over the world. Even Martin Scorsese is giving a nod to the audience's higher sensory appetites, releasing his Rolling Stones film, Shine a Light, in the larger-than-life IMAX format...
...Hafer finished fifth in the men’s 3K with a time of 8:49.97, and classmate Sarah Bourne ran the women’s 5K in 18:17.90 to lock up the fourth-place spot.Juniors Shannon Flahive and Dara Wilson finished the 100-meter hurdles just a fraction of a second apart to place third and fourth with times of 14.46 and 14.47, respectively.In the men’s 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Justin Grinstead notched a fourth-best finish, completing the event in 54.14.Harvard filled its women’s distance medley squad with freshman...
...Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume-and this may be a real stretch-that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good...