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...quietly honed her craft over the course of 17 years in Cambridge, breaking through nationally with a near-perfect sculpture in 1998: a team that went perfect in the Ivy League and upset top-seeded Stanford to become the first 16 seed to beat a top seed in a men's or women's NCAA basketball tournament...
...women, parents or inspiring teachers receive tenure. Seltzer was tenured from within the University, not hired after making her significant contributions at another university. She is an excellent teacher--she won the Roslyn Abramson award and the Phi Beta Kappa award for excellence in teaching. And her near-perfect 4.9 score in the CUE Guide for her course entitled Computer Science 161: Operating Systems shows her commitment to undergraduates. Finally, Seltzer is a mother and currently on maternity-leave...
Dartmouth was also winless in five tries against the top three seeds of the tournament. Harvard posted a near-perfect 2-0-1 record against Brown and Minnesota...
...most dramatic effort of the season, Harvard staged a furious rally led by the near-perfect shooting of captain Laela Sturdy and sophomore guard Jenn Monti. The comeback was completed when freshman guard Bree Kelley drained a clutch hook shot, her patented move, to give the Crimson a 74-73 lead with 1:41 remaining...
...course, I have not always felt that way. There were times when I was downright miserable. My academic performance plummeted from near-perfect marks as a first-year to Group III. For a time, I found myself withdrawing socially, a situation that even led to an unwanted late-night brush with University Health Services. I pulled out of the slump, thanks to a little luck and a lot of help from friends, mostly from this newspaper and from Kirkland, my adopted House. What surprised me is that no one on an administrative level at Harvard noticed any of these warning...