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...leave what doesn’t, and to create from scratch a new social paradigm at Harvard. It is time to stop complaining, and to take action. We must bring ourselves together. Community is at hand, it is all around us, and it is up to us to grab it and make it real...
...premise that ambition is the "need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cutthroat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they make the pie bigger, so there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, the personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years...
...lead at the intermission. Robinson was perfect from the field in the first half, hitting on all five of her field-goal attempts en route to 12 points in the first 20 minutes to lead all scorers. The first half also saw co-captain forward Maureen McCaffery grab 10 rebounds, and although she pulled down just two more in the second frame, she did finish with 13 points and her first career double-double. Still, the personal achievement didn’t make up for the lack of toughness shown by the team. “They were tougher tonight...
...close game at halftime and turn it into a 77-48 blowout at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I. last night. For the Crimson (2-1), it was the second straight time it had defeated the Rams (0-2). Last year, it won in Cambridge 83-77. To grab the victory, Harvard was able to shake off a sluggish first half, which found it up by only three points, 23-20, at the break. “We were a little tight in the first half,” co-captain forward Maureen McCaffery said...
...Housman said. The Crimson jumped out to an early 6-0 lead on two layups from Goffredo and a pair of Housman free throws, but the shooting of the freshman Trimboli helped Vermont take a 24-20 lead midway through the period. Harvard fought back to grab a 33-31 advantage at the break, then got four straight points from Cusworth to open the second half, keying a 17-8 run that gave the Crimson its largest lead at 50-39. Schneider brought the Catamounts back with four second-half threes, but the end of the game belonged solely...