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After beating No. 3 Princeton and No. 2 Wisconsin in their last two match-ups, the No. 1 Radcliffe lightweight crew fell to the Tigers and the Badgers in the Grand Final of the IRA National Championship on Saturday in Camden, N.J., securing a bronze medal...
...down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 50-yd. lanes through beach obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool hat. "We have landed in the wrong place," shouted Roosevelt, who would receive the Medal of Honor for his valor that day. "But we will start the war from here...
Every two years, the American Economics Association awards its prestigious John Bates Clark Medal to the country’s top economist under 40. Recent Harvard winners include Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 and University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...past two times the medal has been doled out, Glaeser was widely considered to be in the running. Now 37, Glaeser will have his last chance at the honor next spring...
Tara Kirk, a Stanford senior and an Olympic-swimming-medal hopeful, swore her body was straight in the water as she raced. Then she looked at herself on the small screen. Her coach had popped open a laptop and, using a software program called Dartswim, superimposed a picture of Kirk's technique from 2002 on an image of her current form. The message was clearer than a chlorinated pool: despite some improvement, she still arched her body during the strokes, adding seconds to her time. "You can't go with what you feel," says her college coach, Richard Quick. "Tara...