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...looking forward to playing people better than me, and losing matches,” Balsekar said. The latter would be a new experience for Balsekar—the three-time New England champion finished high school with a 48-0 record...
Harvard shot only 38.5 percent from the field in the latter frame, and the Women of Troy forced 23 turnovers on the evening. USC out-muscled the Crimson on the offensive glass, tallying 18 offensive rebounds to Harvard’s seven. In the second half, the Women of Troy visited the free throw line 15 times after not having reached the charity stripe in the opening period...
...fight the GOP on matters of principle when necessary. The Democrats’ prospects over the next four years will largely depend on whether Reid is serious about defending progressive Democratic principles, or whether he will give into the temptation to pander to hard-line social conservatives. The latter is a losing proposition: fashionable pundit-babble about “moral values” aside, over the past few decades, Americans have been abandoning social conservatism like rats off a sinking ship. Rather than wanting to legislate their moral values for others, on a host of social issues, Americans increasingly...
...Mansfield launched a campaign against grade inflation where he issued his students two grades—one submitted to the registrar based on the College redistribution and the other, given privately, which reflected what he believed the student deserved. The latter was nearly always at least an entire letter grade lower, he said...
...think both are at play, but the latter pulls a lot of weight. There’s something about the published word that, like a piece of art or a score of music, conveys confidence and sure conclusions. Even if the particulars of the piece don’t, and even if the writer wasn’t at that golden stage of the process during which all loose ends come together and all doubts fly to the heavens...