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...Crimson tasted defeat was in last year’s 27-24 loss to Princeton....The Crimson has started 5-0 for the third time in the last four seasons....Harvard gave up its fewest total offensive yards this season on defense, as the Leopards finished with a meager 240....The Harvard defense has yet to give up more than 100 yards rushing this season....Saturday marked the first time the Crimson has not scored 30 points this fall.—Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants." ED MARKEY, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, after President Bush signed a $1.2 billion homeland-security bill that many Democrats think is too meager...
...There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants." ED MARKEY, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, after President Bush signed a $1.2 billion homeland-security bill that many Democrats think is too meager...
While it is laudable that students and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) are donating money to hunger relief, the amount stated, a meager $2.46 per student, does not sound like the actual amount charged per student meal. Since the article does not say, your readers have no way of knowing whether this is unvarnished generosity on the part of HUDS or if the University is keeping the lion’s share of the cost of those missed meals...
...just 1 percent higher than the odds of getting into Harvard College itself. The electoral landscape in the Yard contrasts with the terrain facing upperclassman candidates. The four freshman districts each fielded at least 19 candidates this year, with Leverett House, the next most contested precinct, putting forth a meager six. It’s not just the freshman candidates who are getting the electoral urge. First-years are also going to the polls—that is, the UC website—in greater numbers than their more grizzled elders. In 2005, turnout topped 50 percent in every freshman...