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...best.” That confidence will be important on Saturday against the Demon Deacons, the highest ranked team Harvard has faced yet. Aside from a 1-0 loss to Virginia last week, the ACC squad has dominated its conference and is a major player on the national level. With last night’s win over the Wildcats (2-4-1), however, the Crimson overcame another hurdle before the match against the powerhouse from North Carolina. “It was a tough game,” co-captain Andre Akpan said...
...article in the Sept. 24 issue of Nature says the safe climatic limits in which humanity has blossomed are more vulnerable than ever and that unless we recognize our planetary boundaries and stay within them, we risk total catastrophe. "Human activities have reached a level that could damage the systems that keep Earth in the desirable Holocene state," writes Johan Rockstrom, executive director of the Stockholm Environmental Institute and the author of the article. "The result could be irreversible and, in some cases, abrupt environmental change, leading to a state less conducive to human development." (See TIME's special report...
...great experience playing such a talented team,” said co-captain Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon, who felt the tough matchup would improve her team’s play in the future. “The speed of the game should raise our level of play,” Caples said. Despite a rough start, freshman goalkeeper Cynthia Tassopoulos recorded 23 saves, six more than she made in her first four games combined. “[The high number of shot attempts] was expected from such a strong team as UConn, but I felt like our defense really stepped...
...During his time here, he showed himself to be a really honest, caring person—not just on a personal level, but also in his aspirations for what America should be,” Syed said...
...when does a high-level White House adviser become a czar? No one knows for sure, since the term itself has no formal definition. Essentially it's a media creation - the White House rarely even acknowledges the title - used as a snappy shorthand to identify and describe the array of policy officials swarming the West Wing. And it's hard to blame reporters; unwieldy official titles are often begging for a rebranding (Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, doesn't stand a chance against drug czar). Counts of Obama's czars range from the high...