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...Stehle and Cusworth combined for 33 points, 20 rebounds, five blocks, and three steals. With the tallest New Hampshire player checking in at just 6’8, Harvard should be able to impose its will inside. That frontcourt strength has just started to live up to the preseason hype: after three games, two guards—junior Jim Goffredo and freshman Drew Housman—ranked in the top three in scoring for the Crimson. But after Stehle and Cusworth’s 35-point combined effort against UC Davis on Sunday, that duo has taken over the second...
...leadership that focused on building economies and democratic nations instead of shoring up their power by force and ensuring that they and their friends got rich. When President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he touted this generation as Africa's great hope. The reality has rarely matched the hype. Within months of Clinton's visit, Rwanda and Uganda had invaded Congo, and Eritrea and Ethiopia had gone to war with each other. While some leaders - notably Museveni and Zenawi - still did enough to remain darlings of Western donors, even they have now begun to slide. In Ethiopia, Zenawi...
...media likes to hype large presidential pay packages, but universities can’t ignore the marketplace,” he said. “Demand is exceeding supply for university presidents, and it is appropriate for the board of trustees and the Harvard Corporation to respond to competition in the marketplace...
...risk bodies for rebounds. “They’re a bunch of big boys,” said sophomore forward Tyler Magura, “and we’re going to have to really play hard.” And for all the fan hype leading up to Friday’s Cornell game—it is, after all, The Game for Harvard hockey—Saturday’s contest against Colgate should not be lost in the shuffle. The Raiders are averaging 4.29 goals per game, and sophomore netminder Mark Dekanich...
...involve conspicuous ping-pong balls? Look no further as the denizens of Eliot House—home of more Rhodes scholars than Yale—have adopted an original alternative: Stump. FM observed Eliot House’s weekly post-Stein Club game to see what the hype was all about. According to worldstump.com, “The origins of Stump are shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests it was invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate New York.” The game has gained a strong following, mostly...