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...took a near-perfect performance to finally end the Harvard men’s basketball team’s perfect start. Behind guard Justin Chirea’s 7-for-10 shooting from behind the arc, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) stormed past the Crimson (5-1) for an 87-79 victory on Saturday afternoon at Lavietes Pavilion.“This was clearly going in the toughest opponent for us to guard, and that proved to be true,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “The thing that was most disconcerting to our guys...
...season. The match was originally intended to be played on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game but was rescheduled. The Harvard women did not drop a game and saw two players—captain No. 8 Allison Fast and junior No. 9 Sarah Thorndike—with perfect 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 sweeps.The Crimson will travel to San Francisco for a training trip during intersession before resuming competitive play against Trinity in Hartford, Conn...
...canvassing effort sways more than a few voters and showcases the chemistry between the members of the most experienced ticket on the ballot. (Like clockwork, Voith and Gadgil remind each suite they visit that they have a combined eight semesters of UC membership.)A PERFECT FIT“We have complementary skills that allow us to work together,” says Gadgil.A confident but understated Biology and Public Policy concentrator, Voith is at ease the moment he sits down in the Science Center’s Greenhouse Café. Voith is charismatic without being overbearing...
...consolation thatgay Catholics have longhad is that the church hates only sin, not sinners. Yes, many of us are far from perfect, and like most married, heterosexual Catholics, we have been known to have sex without making a baby. But we were, as the Vatican assured us in official documents in 1975 and '86, "made in the image and likeness of God." The condition of homosexuality was, for many, "innate" and not in itself a sin. Gay people were "often generous and giving of themselves," said the Vatican, and the notion that gays could not lead celibate lives...
...article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" We pride ourselves on our tolerance. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving--let alone worth tolerating or protecting...