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...loss stunned Harvard players and fans—who were hoping for the team’s first undefeated season since winning the Ivy crown in 2001—and dramatically reduced the Crimson’s chances of winning this year’s title outright over rivals Penn and Yale...
Grumet-Morris has experience playing in a tandem. As a freshman, he split time with Will Crothers before earning the job outright in February...
...extended presence of ROTC on campus would not, to be sure, cohere with Harvard’s anti-discrimination policies. But banning it outright, and forcing cadets to participate in a ROTC-in-exile, is inconsistent with Harvard’s mission of training leaders of all varieties. Moreover, ROTC is not an institution so riddled with a discriminatory nature, as is the Ku Klux Klan, that Harvard has a moral imperative to banish them from campus. Rather, ROTC’s de facto purpose is not to intimidate minorities, but to supply our armed forces with competent leaders...
...lives will ever see. To me, that fact is what gives life its vitality, and what makes a seemingly simple game like poker so popular, so famous and glamourous. And that fact is why I believe the fourth time I try to learn poker I will, if not succeed outright, at least be able to finally play my first real game...
...victory on Saturday, meanwhile, assures Princeton of at least a share of the Ivy crown, and the Tigers only need to beat Penn on Nov. 7 to clinch the outright title...