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...Haven.“In general, this meet went exactly as I thought it’d go,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “The women did a great job with their win, and the men took good steps to close the gap with Yale.”The win for the women completes a sweep of Yale this year—the Crimson women beat the Bulldogs in the fall cross country season and the winter indoor season—and Saturday’s win came in large part from sweeps...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Women Drop Yale in Dual Meet | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...have an international task force and legitimate power to apprehend and prosecute, but who's going to pay for that?" asked Kratz. "Realistically this will be a short term measure or something that won't happen for a long time." Until then, technology will attempt to fill the gap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piracy Sparks High-Tech Defenses | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...choice put runners at second and third. That brought Bock, who is steadily building a reputation as the Crimson’s clutch hitter, to the plate with two outs. This time she didn’t disappoint. A single to right field scored both runners and narrowed the gap to two runs. That was the best the Crimson could do though, as the next batter, Pledger, smacked a routine out to second. Harvard scored its only other run in the first. Henderson, the lead off hitter, got on base with a single. The speedy freshman then stole second...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eagles Halt Crimson’s Winning Streak | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent in 2003. But critics of Fowler-Finn have assailed him for being too “test-oriented” in his pedagogical emphasis and “misleading” when presenting MCAS data. And despite improvement, an achievement gap between white and minority students persists. RE-EXAMINING THE GAPCRLS senior Emma L. Shreefter said that she thinks the district takes a “skewed” approach to student achievement. “I think that, ever since I was a freshman, the achievement and push for success...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minding the Achievement Gap | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...dripped with contempt for modern gotcha politics, for a campaign culture obsessed with substantively irrelevant but supposedly symbolic gaffes like John Kerry ordering Swiss cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Play Trivial Pursuit | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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