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...Brown, that’s good for second place.’ We kept thinking about how to gain on Princeton, how to crawl back on them.”In the end, the Crimson’s fight for second was all it could muster. The Tigers, who had not won by less than open water all season, quelled Harvard’s surge in the final 500 to take home the Sprints title that had eluded them for three years.There was a pair of second-place finishes in 2003 and 2004 to accompany mounting expectations that this Princeton...
...walk-off single by Ashley Gleason. “We’ve struggled all year to finish games, to close things out,” Allard said. “Dartmouth got timely hits, and we didn’t.” The Crimson lineup could muster only three hits against Dartmouth starter Stephanie Trudeau, while the Big Green banged out ten. Trudeau was dominant on the hill, allowing only two runs on three hits while going all ten innings for Dartmouth. Down 1-0 after being held scoreless on the day, Harvard finally managed to get something...
...occasionally denied funding to officially recognized Harvard student organizations, most notably the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), which requires its officers to be Christians, and single-sex a cappella singing groups, which require their members to be of a particular sex. Even though these organizations have passed muster with University Hall’s Committee on College Life (CCL), which vets student groups for official College recognition, the UC has sometimes insisted that they not be funded because of the discrimination written into their constitutions...
...just not true; in fact, we are the only developed Western country that fails to view health care as a human right. Leadership for change must come from the President and Congress. Without the promise of health care for all, we aren't likely to muster the energy and political will we need to meet the needs of our entire population. We'll limp along, instead, with defects in care and gaps in management that we have trained ourselves to regard as inevitable...
...Anything you want to do about clean energy is easier to do from the outset," says David Moskowitz, an energy consultant who has advised Chinese officials. "Every time they add a power plant or factory, they can add one cleaner and better than before." If China and India can muster the will and resources to leapfrog the West's energy-heavy development path, dangerous climate change might be averted. "China and India have to demonstrate to other countries that it is possible to develop in a sustainable way," says Yang Fuqiang, vice president of the Energy Foundation in Beijing...