Word: hand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party to belong to, considering it had a hand in delivering three Ivy League championships and a historic moment last March, when Miller sank a three-pointer with 46 seconds on the clock to clinch the women's basketball team's unprecedented upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But the Crimson guard/forward and off-court pre-med says the moment, which immortalized her in Harvard sports history, was just that. A moment...
...With this tight match in hand, Harvard entered the Penn match brimming with confidence. Behind Wang--who was back at her customary No. 1 slot--the Crimson romped...
...bulk of Rudenstine's time, however, is caught up in the kind of minutiae more appropriate for a small college president than the head of a major University. As a result, it seems, the office of the president of Harvard University has shrunk under Rudenstine's well-intentioned hand...
Knowles in particular has a "something of an upper hand in dealing with the president," in the words of one former University official. "He is pretty politically skilled, which is interesting because Rudenstine had vastly more experience when he came to the University, and Knowles had not been terribly active in the public affairs of the Faculty...
...current administrator says Knowles is far more conservative than Rudenstine, especially when it comes to spending money. He is skeptical, for example, of plans to move ahead on "distance learning" at Harvard--education over the Internet and through correspondence. Rudenstine, on the other hand, wants to push forward with planning on the topic...