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...game without a win. “We did enough to have a winning night,” coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “But you can’t take three or four penalties every period and expect the result you want, no matter how hard you work.” The Crimson came out firing and outshot the Saints, 8-0, in the opening five minutes. But a few big saves from St. Lawrence sophomore goalie Alex Petizian kept Harvard at bay. St. Lawrence, on the other hand, did not get its first...
...stress disorder (PTSD), the Department waved them off saying they had no right to do so. The VA said that Congress had set up an administrative - not judicial - process for evaluating individual disability claims. The veterans, it declared, just had to wait for bureaucracy to take its course - no matter that it has a backlog of 600,000 unresolved claims, each of which can take up to six months or more to process...
Your life changed profoundly. It was certainly the occasion that brought me to public notice. The media created a Hillary and Tenzing that really didn't exist. They made us into heroic figures, and it didn't really matter what we thought or said or did. The main thing was that as long as I didn't believe all this rubbish that was written, I would be okay. I never did believe it. And I think I've survived reasonably well. I never deny the fact that I think I did pretty well on Everest. On the other hand, never...
...villages. Now, I'm not anti-communist by any manner or means, but there was no question they felt that it was most important that they should stress that Tenzing had got to the summit first. Whereas to the ordinary mountaineer, of course, it's a matter of complete indifference. So they got Tenzing aside, and they really batted away at him and I think they frightened him to death, quite frankly. And he, even though he couldn't at that stage read or write, signed a document which they presented to him, which indicated...
...laws.Though we don’t believe that, for example, a private security firm with no police authority should have to release its internal records to the public, HUPD—like any other deputized campus police department—represents a patently different case. The distinction in this matter should not, as Harvard maintains, rest on who signs an officer’s paycheck, or to whom an officer answers, or which insignia an officer wears on his sleeve. Rather, it should rest on which powers are delegated by the state and applied by the agency, since this...