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...senior co-captain Jessica Knox said. “We knew they had a couple good shooters, but we weren’t expecting them to hit as well as they did tonight.” Heading into the locker room, the Friars shot nearly 45 percent from the field and made half its shots from three-point range. That was the Crimson’s first clue that its two-three zone defense wasn’t going to work on the night.“They started getting real comfortable in our zone and hitting threes...
...translator at the Institute of Politics, as well as at an earlier question-and-answer session with reporters, Gorbachev said repeatedly that Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia should be respected. The elections, which President Vladimir V. Putin’s United Russia party won with 64.1 percent of the vote, have drawn criticism from international observers...
...years, the share of non-tenure track faculty on college campuses in the U.S. increased by more than 50 percent. From 1975 to 2005, the share of part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty in all U.S. degree-granting institutions jumped from 43 percent to 68 percent, according to figures from a report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). While increasing numbers of non-tenured faculty may be the norm at other colleges, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) consists mostly of professors with tenure or those who are on the path...
...afoul of some federal aviation law.In fairness, I suppose that it’s possible for trains to have screwups too—I’m by no means arguing that they are perfect.Train tickets aren’t necessarily cheap either, though I usually save about 40 percent compared to airfare.Worse still, U.S. rail technology is simply pathetic compared to the high-speed rail that exists in virtually every other industrialized country. My train from Boston to Chicago averages about 46 miles per hour--52 miles per hour on the continuous, faster leg from Albany to Chicago...
...inspiration to the fraternity; she offers a female perspective and represents the ideals of the fraternity,” said Alex R. Mersereau ’10, a brother of Sigma Chi. Berkey, a John Harvard scholar whose GPA as a junior placed her in the top 5 percent of her class, approaches her role with seriousness and the kind of ambition that would drive her to seek the title and responsibilities of International Sweetheart. “One of them is just being a part of the frat almost in that she comes to the events and helps with...