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...outset of the spring season it was clear that the Crimson was not considered among the nation's elite...
...outset it should be noted that Harvard has taken important steps toward rooting out inequality. Twenty-four percent of all tenured appointments in the last five years have been to women and in all hiring processes, departments are told to enlarge the applicant pool in ways that make women feel particularly encouraged to apply, and to document these efforts. However, the University has not done enough prior to the tenuring process. For example, Associate Dean of Affirmative Action Marjorie Garber reviews cases only after the fact. In addition, the average annual rate of change during the Rudenstine-Knowles Administration...
...into much more than a situation, notes TIME's Richard Schickel, a situation with the sole rationale of placing smooth, sardonic Billy Crystal, playing a successful lawyer named Jack Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most of this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor...
...outset, things didn't seem bad at all for the Crimson, which maintained possession for almost all of the first seven minutes of the game...
Harvard closed the gap in the third quarter with four goals at the outset and five total for the period, while holding Dartmouth to a single goal, to take a razor-thin 11-10 lead into the final stanza. The teams traded leads in the fourth quarter, with Merritt's goal deciding the outcome in the waning seconds of the contest...