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...Crimson back within one to start the fourth, the lead was insurmountable as Marist scored three more late in the quarter to end the Crimson’s weekend on a low note.“I’m glad we had a chance to develop our team grit,” co-captain Lauren Snyder said. “Just being able to play five games in 24 hours gives us a lot of confidence.”HARVARD 13, ST. FRANCIS 12Last-second heroics allowed Harvard to escape its first match on Sunday with a hard-fought...
Despite Unger’s nondescript performance (six points, five rebounds, one assist), his play oozed grit and determination, motivating his teammates with his work ethic and efficiency (committing only one foul and shooting 4-for-4 from the charity stripe...
...frequency with which the latter phenomenon occurs could suggest that the business of competitive college athletics is incompatible with a rigorous academic environment. Some argue that a reason to admit academically dubious athletes is that they tend to possess a deep discipline for their sport and this is grit we can learn from. Yet mediocre athletes can be highly disciplined too—athletic talent is not absolutely correlated with discipline for the sport...
...forces in this election, of course, are those of race and gender. After ingesting the January avalanche of pundit speculation in the wake of Iowa and New Hampshire, I too had chalked up my ambivalence about the two candidates to my own race and gender. I simply had to grit my teeth and decide which one was more important to me, which was in more dire need of “change”: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that I don?...
...fact, we’ve never been introduced. I am, however, deeply disturbed to be receiving my post-Harvard marching orders from her. This is, after all, a woman who is remarkable for her ability to dupe children into thinking that all they need to face their demons are grit, courage, and a handful of dead relatives. At least Dan Brown managed to get people interested in some important works of art and J. R. R. Tolkien gave short people a reason to live. Our commencement speaker, meanwhile, tricked parents into letting their kids read books filled with sex, murder...