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...York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken this spring by the Knot, a wedding website, supports Goldin's findings: 81% of poll respondents in its registry took their spouse's last name, up from 71% in 2000. Meanwhile, hyphenated surnames dropped from...
Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec coped with Boston’s unpredictable and transitory weather in the regatta, as winds ranged from dead calm to 30-knot gusts and competitors were doused with heavy rain. Despite the tribulations, Kovacs and Dolbec cruised to first, with 67 points to second-place Tufts’ 83. The duo won four of 17 races and finished in the top five...
...captain Jonathan Chu was first to complete his singles match, losing 6-3, 6-3 and giving Brown a 2-0 edge. But freshman Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Shantanu Dhaka both won in straight sets to knot the dual-match score...
...next 55 minutes, the plane was pushed 69 miles off course by 200-knot winds and dangerously close to the Soviet defense zone at Sakhalin. When crew members realized the error, they radioed Soviet controllers, who granted permission for the plane to change course. Only later did Nishioka learn that Soviet jets had been put on airborne alert and had trailed his craft. While the incident ended happily enough, it was a chilling reminder of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which in September 1983 also strayed near Sakhalin. The Soviets fired on the jet, killing all 269 people on board...
...NCAA championship game, Vaillancourt scored a power-play goal—assisted by Corriero and Chu—to knot the game at two in the second period...