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...Harvard men’s and women’s cross-country teams concluded their seasons Saturday in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships at Boston’s Franklin Park. The men finished eighth in the 33-team field, while the women placed ninth among 37 teams. Sophomore Lindsey Scherf placed fifth in the women’s event, qualifying for the NCAA Championships. Scherf paced the Crimson women with a time of 20:34.7, part of a pack of four women within seven seconds of winner Fiona Crombie of Providence. “We were all kind of fighting...
...four 24? stamps from 1918, which feature an erroneously printed upside-down biplane, to Mystic Stamp Company president Donald Sundman for the 1? Z-grill from 1868 to complete the collection he has been building for over a decade. The cashless deal effectively values the Z-grill, featuring Benjamin Franklin, at $2.97 million, the price Gross paid last month for the Inverted Jenny block...
...this season. The YES Network cameras will be at Harvard Stadium, but not the Ivy League trophy. For the first time since 2000, Harvard and Penn will play each other with similarly tarnished 3-2 Ivy records. With Penn’s 30-13 loss to Princeton at Franklin Field Saturday—the Tigers’ first win over the Quakers since 1995—it’s Brown and Princeton, not Harvard and Penn, who sit alone atop the Ivy heap. The Bears have only league whipping boys Dartmouth and Columbia ahead, virtually ensuring that Brown will...
...possible for the nonambitious to jump-start their drive, provided the right jolt comes along. "Energy level may be genetic," says psychologist Simonton, "but a lot of times it's just finding the right thing to be ambitious about." Simonton and others often cite the case of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who might not have been the same President he became--or even become President at all--had his disabling polio not taught him valuable lessons about patience and tenacity...
...Laurel Avenue (HBO) A working-class black family in Minnesota battles against drugs, crime and assorted family crises. This two-part drama, directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), was startling in its frankness yet leavened by a stubborn optimism, a far cry from TV's usual easy sentimentality...