Word: pars
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...season expecting be playing for the Ivy League title this weekend, the stakes will not be quite that high. Harvard (12-13, 4-8 Ivy) will instead be playing to finish above .500 for the first time since the 2001-2002 team finished 14-12. To finish above par, the Crimson needs to halt a seven-game losing streak and defeat Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday. Both games will be played at Lavietes Pavilion. “We look to go into this weekend and send out a message that they can forget the last seven...
...leap year, the Bell Lap has felt an overwhelming pressure to consume a month’s worth of food and beverages within the space of a foreshortened February. Needless to say, drinking every variety of Vitamin Water in a single day has pretty much been par for the course. But when it comes to the more important subject of snacking, everyone knows that there is no better feeling than feeding a machine some money and having it reward you with delicious processed foodstuffs. It avoids the irksome “human” element of buying things from...
...that Gondry innately understands the inventive possibilities accruing to matching music to film; song allows the possibility of a narrative that would be impossible with mere words and pictures.The original interpretation of “Jesus Walks” in “Block Party” is on par with his versions of The Rolling Stones’ cover of “Like a Rolling Stone,” which is filmed entirely from the perspective of a literal rolling stone, hisrecent Conan O’Brien is a floating head media meditation version of the White Stripes?...
...Crimson editor, for a literary genius, but we can often be too hasty in dismissing the mass paperback masters as bad storytellers and writers. We forget that successfully crafting a compelling plot—weaving together the twists and unleashing unexpected intersections—is a difficult task on par with understanding Faulkner...
Hundreds of interviews, tens of thousands of dollars, and weeks of clandestine meetings are par for the course when searching for a new University president.Which is not surprising, considering that Harvard is looking for a person to fill possibly the most prestigious and stressful position in the academic world.Harvard has had four presidents over the past 50 years, and each has made a significant contribution to the University. But from Nathan Pusey’s hardline approach to student protestors during the Vietnam War to Lawrence H. Summers’ ill-advised comments about women in science, it seems talk...