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Harvard finally got on the scoreboard in the second quarter when Perry ran three yards for a touchdown. Perry did it all once the Crimson got close, carrying the ball three times for the final 26 yards...
...Crimson's second match of the tournament, Columbia jumped to a 7-0 lead. Harvard got a side-out on kill by Burger to stop the Lion run. The Crimson took advantage of the sideout by scoring eight straight points to take the lead...
...question in a bouncing lyric: "Why can't a woman . . . ((ta-ta-ta-dum)) . . . be more like a man?" Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a major sex-discrimination case, Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, that touches on some further questions that Professor Higgins never got to. Can a woman be too much like a man, at least in the eyes of some male colleagues? And if her career suffers because she strikes them as gruff and hard-nosed, is she being penalized for qualities that might be treated as assets in a male...
...write an essay about something that made them angry, one boy described the time his brother was gunned down and died on the front steps of his house. Soon afterward, the boy himself was fatally shot. In poor rural areas, the deprivation can be even more elemental. "I've got kids that have never held a pencil before," says a Mississippi kindergarten teacher. "And last year I had one that had never held silverware." Trying to convey the majesty of Shakespeare or even basic | addition and subtraction to such children can be a near impossibility...
...intrigued. "Are we positive that 1,000 years from now, people won't look back and say that we got it all wrong?" he asks. Rodriguez is delighted. "That's a beautiful question," he says. "I love it when my students ask that." Then he leads the class into a discussion of how scientific theories can and must evolve...