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...stakes were the same at Providence for Harvard in 1995. A win would clinch the title outright, and the Crimson struck first in the opening half as co-captain Sara Noonan redirected sophomore Emily Stauffer's feed through the mud and the Brown defense...
...that moment was the Brown game in 1994. The Crimson, which needed a win to claim the league crown, held a 3-1 in the second half only to see the Bears storm back to tie the game with under 10 minutes left and win the Ancient Eight crown outright...
...suppose it is possible that Harvard really has a mix of classes and that the students who filled out the survey lied outright. But that is at least as disturbing as a lack of socioeconomic diversity: why would people feel a need to inflate their families' income levels...
...University Attorney Richard J. Riley's claim that the HUPD officers did nothing inappropriate during their early morning raid of my client's suite and that "nothing was seized that they were not entitled to seize"--this is a documentable, outright lie. The HUPD are still holding--unlawfully--memoranda and correspondence exchanged between my client and me. Attorney Riley should apologize for lying so blatantly to The Crimson. --Harvey A. Silverglate
Unfortunately, except as an example to the world, a U.S. ban will have scant practical effect. The Geneva conference offered little hope. Because of opposition by countries like Russia and China, which have stockpiled tens of millions of mines, the conference stopped well short of calling for an outright prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There...