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Harvard (10-4-1, 3-2-0 Ivy) defeated Dartmouth (3-9-2, 1-3-1) for the first time this millennium by a score of 1-0 on Saturday. The Crimson, which last beat the Big Green in 1999, took advantage of a first-half goal by co-captain Megan Merritt and a strong defensive performance from sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Mann to record its second consecutive Ivy win. “Days like this are always exciting,” Merritt said. “You can never predict the outcome. The team really needed to bring the energy...
...white elephants go, they didn't come much bigger than the Millennium Dome...
...gritty Docklands region on the banks of the River Thames, the white, 80,000-square-meter, tent-like structure - designed by famed architect Richard Rogers - is one of the few manmade objects visible from space. Opening to great fanfare on Dec. 31, 1999, on the cusp of the new millennium with Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in attendance, the Dome was initially considered a failure. Sure, it lured 6.5 million visitors to its themed Millennium Experience attractions during its year-long run - many more than any other U.K. attraction - but the government had naively promised...
...Campbell thinks the results have finally silenced naysayers who called the Dome a doomed disaster. Critics may have hated the Millennium Experience, he says, "but the building was always cool. The Rogers design, it's a fantastic, iconic structure." And now, thanks to a hot new arena, what's inside is cool...
...future encompasses special accountability to our students, for they are our most important purpose and legacy. And we are responsible not just to and for this university, Harvard, at this moment, 2007, but to the very concept of the university as it has evolved over nearly a millennium...