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With the team clinging to its narrow one-goal lead with time winding down in the final period, sophomore defender Lindsay Weaver went to the box for tripping at 18:27. Already up a skater, Yale coach Hilary Witt pulled junior goalie Sarah Love with 42 seconds left to create a 6-on-4 edge. The Bulldogs swarmed the net and got the equalizer when Jenna Spring poked the loose rebound of an Erin Duggan slapshot though the five-hole of junior keeper...
...started remaking the system. At the graduate level, he made the admissions review more holistic, emphasizing recommendations and grades and downplaying GREs, where women tend to get lower scores than their male counterparts. “There are lots of ways in which we have too narrow a view of what a physicist needs to look like,” Georgi says...
Involved students and committed athletes struggle to find time in busy evening schedules for dinner within the narrow window currently offered. And students working late seek the ever-expanding services from late-night Brain-Breaks, a snack which for many has come to represent a fourth meal. In the interest of healthy living, the University needs to take a close look at what services we offer to students and when...
...took 16 years for the high court to come around to Presson's point of view, by a narrow 5-to-4 vote. In 1989 the court ruled 5 to 4 the other way. Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 1989 decision, argued that there was neither a "historical nor a modern societal consensus" forbidding capital punishment for 16- or 17-year-olds (though the court had found such a consensus for those under 16 a year earlier). Last week, however, Scalia was on the short side of the decision...
...presence of death in Nthandire has been overwhelming in recent years. The grandmothers whom we meet are guardians for their orphaned grandchildren. The margin of survival is extraordinarily narrow; sometimes it closes entirely. One woman we meet in front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about...