Word: lessing
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Harvard has a much less daunting schedule. The Crimson season officially opens at home against Division-II Washington and Lee Nov. 20. Clemente attributes the level of difficulty in the Crimson's non-conference schedule to the youth of the team. The main goal now, he says, is to focus on crucial Ivy League games...
...quest to attain those lofty goals begins in less than two weeks when Harvard takes on Stephen F. Austin in its season opener in Texas. Although the preseason Ivy League polls pick the Crimson to finish fourth in the league, Melissa and Sarah aim to help prove the so-called experts wrong...
...Casuals" are theoretically workers who works less than 17.5 hours per week or for no less than three months, and as a result receive no benefits and lower wages...
Worst of all, the experts believe, such changes could come on with astonishing speed--perhaps within a decade or less. And while we might have a great deal of trouble adjusting to a climate that gets 2[degrees]C (4[degrees]F) warmer over the next century, an ice age by midcentury would be unimaginably devastating. The lingering uncertainty about whether our relentless production of greenhouse gases will keep heating our planet or ultimately cool it suggests that we should make a better effort to leave the earth's thermostat alone...
...setback. (It later recovered to 89.93, and finished down just 1.8 percent on the day.) "Microsoft is the same company it ever was - one of the greatest concentrations of brainpower on the planet," says Quittner. "That's not going to change, and the company shouldn't be worth any less Monday than it was on Friday. Moreover, most investors had good reason to expect this ruling." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding of fact, which strongly suggested he would find the company in breach of antitrust legislation, will likely spur Bill Gates to cut a deal. "Microsoft has to settle...