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Following its upset win over Dartmouth Saturday, the Crimson moved up one spot this week to No. 5 in the national rankings. The Big Green, for its part, dropped one notch down...
When the Crimson fell behind early, Corriero brought them even six minutes later. Then she gave them a 2-1 lead with a power-play notch another four minutes into the game...
Ever since the Pope barely survived a 1981 assassination attempt, Catholics worldwide have got used to praying for his health. Whenever John Paul II has a setback - and he's had quite a few in the past 10 years - speculation about his successor ratchets up another notch. So when the Pope was rushed to the hospital last week suffering from an inflamed windpipe, spasms of the larynx and the flu, people wondered how long he would be able to continue in office. The Vatican reported that John Paul was making a good recovery, but with the 84-year-old Pontiff...
...remade itself in the wake of 9/11 into a counterterrorism agency, the bureau's long-standing counterintelligence mission has been bumped down a notch on the priority list. During this time, Russia has been among the U.S.'s rivals most aggressively exploiting the opening to build up its spying capabilities. Also, it has been using liberalized immigration rules for Russians, instituted after the cold war, to install NOCs...
...abilities. These differences, if real, might explain part of the discrepancy in their representation on prestigious science faculties, he told a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last Friday. Nobody present at the conference has claimed that Summers said women cannot or should not be top-notch scientists. In fact, Summers is said to have explicitly hoped “to be proven wrong on this one.” But some think that acknowledgment of differences implies belief in inferiority and advocacy of prejudicial treatment...