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...scheduled tonight’s game to be a “Bulldog Blue-Out,” encouraging fans to pack the stands and wear Yale’s team color.Harvard has been one of the Ivy’s hottest-shooting teams this season, scoring in 46.2 percent of their shots, bested only by Cornell. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Bulldogs are just behind at 44.7 percent, so shooting defense will be key in tonight’s game.“The Ivy League is challenging in that it’s a very good shooting league...
Trailing Ec 10 was Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” which drew 587 undergraduates, down 30 percent from the 846 students it last enrolled in the fall...
Harvard is a university particularly enamored by statistics: a nine percent acceptance rate, a $35 billion endowment, and 15 million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems, not on account of the efflorescence of our studies but on account of the upward slope of our trend lines. Immeasurable qualities are no longer important; in a quantified world, a given quality’s inability to cram into the cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And...
...Seventy percent of the voters polled by TIME said Bill Clinton's recent performance on the campaign trail had "no influence" on whether they were more or less likely to vote for his wife. Nineteen percent of voters said Clinton's recent comments made them less likely to vote for her; nine percent of voters said it made them more likely to vote...
...Reports of a Christian conservative takeover of the GOP have been exaggerated. While the evangelical right is a key part of the Republican coalition, it's not decisive - certainly not in a swing state. Sixty percent of Missouri voters in the Republican exit poll said they attend church least once a week. Even more - 76% - said abortion should be illegal. Yet the winner was not the first choice of evangelical Protestants opposed to abortion. Conservative Christians buoyed Mike Huckabee to a strong second-place, but Huck's inability to reach beyond that base left him an also...