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...mental issues, some have made poor economic decisions, some have drug addictions, and some have just had bad luck. Some have been knocked down by a society that at times has little sympathy for its poor. Just as they may have made mistakes, we have also stumbled off the narrow road at times as well...
Though it rolled into the Ivy League Championships with seemingly unstoppable momentum, the Harvard women’s golf team found itself dragging to a disappointing finish, finally slowed down by this year’s cold, wet spring. The narrow, tree-lined fairways and fast, sloping greens at the Trenton Country Club in Trenton, N.J., confounded the Crimson, which finished fourth of seven teams in the three-round tournament, shooting a 110 over-par 974 (326-329-319), which put it 41 strokes behind first-place Columbia and 21 strokes behind third-place Yale. “We?...
...explain that you (and other swimmers) quite often smash world records by half a second, sometimes even one or two seconds, while world records in track and field hold much longer and are beaten by narrow margins? Jeremie Clevy, PARIS...
...teach broad introductory courses that require a lot of legwork to found and run. Beyond juggling teaching, research, and advising, most professors are specialists and want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There is, however, a clear solution: The new dean should lift FAS’ illogical rule that sends away lecturers, top-notch teachers better suited to teaching broad subjects and developing new classes, after eight years of teaching. Instead, lecturers’ contracts should also be indefinitely renewable...
...14th was like a volcano hole, a raised green that sloped off to the sides,” coach Kevin Rhoads said. “We were really happy to come out of that with [mostly] pars and only a few bogies.” The 10th, a narrow 390-yard hole that plays even longer, was tough enough to trip up Amanti, who had been infallible elsewhere. After an even-par front nine, Amanti double-bogeyed the 10th, forcing her to dig deep to maintain her strong round. “After I made a double on the 10th...