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...mere 15 years before the controversy, A-range marks constituted only one-third of the total. Last year’s A-range grades represented 48.3 percent of the grades distributed, an insignificant drop from the 48.7 percent in 2000-2001 that brought the College under fire...
Which is understandable, given the success of the program he has resurrected from its down years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the three seasons prior to Murphy’s ascension, the Crimson won a total of just 10 games—a mere three in former coach Joe Restic’s final two years at the helm...
...Crimson’s thrilling win—Harvard stole a 0.2-second victory over second-place Yale—was confirmed only after a series of timed photographs showed the Harvard boat a few mere inches ahead of the Bulldogs at the line...
Harvard began the season without the two All-Americans lost to graduation—including the collegiate men’s Sailor of the Year—but it hardly left the limelight. In mere months, Devlin and sophomore Clay Johnson took second in the individual ICSA singlehanded national championships, while Tulloch—last year’s collegiate women’s Sailor of the Year—and freshman Kyle Kovacs each finished fourth...
...were to install even rudimentary hybrid technology in all our vehicles, from SUVs to 18-wheelers, current gasoline consumption could be cut by up to a half. If we increased the average fuel economy of our cars by a mere 8 miles per gallon, a far cry from the 50 miles per gallon efficiency increases that hybrids promise, we would no longer need to import any oil from the Persian Gulf...