Word: pride
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...answer for the Big Green’s relentless style of play in the first game of the twinbill, losing handily by a score of 14-2.But while there were few tangible rewards left to motivate Harvard (12-28, 10-10 Ivy) towards victory, the team still had its pride, and it came out in the nightcap better prepared to take down division-leading Dartmouth (22-13, 16-4 Ivy). A rejuvenated Crimson squad gutted out a gritty victory, sparked by the late-inning heroics that have been the trademark of Harvard’s victories this season. Captain Harry Douglas...
...than me,” he says. Both Graham and Malcolm studied under the same piano teacher, Sayuri Miyamoto, for 10 years. According to Malcolm, the aptitude Graham has shown for piano playing has been immensely fulfilling for him. “[Graham] has a lot of confidence and pride in what he’s doing,” Malcolm says. Graham, a senior studying piano at Berkshire Hills Music Academy, had a “You’re at college; well, I’m at college too” attitude about visiting his brother at Harvard...
...view it as a national interest to build institutions of world-class quality. The U.S. is unique in not having a national strategy for maintaining world-class universities." True, the American system of state universities has until recently done pretty well for itself, building solid schools, fostering strong regional pride and creating some fierce athletic rivalries. But as Michigan and other top public universities are learning, fight songs and sports fans aren't enough to finance a first class education...
...case of Disneynature's first big-screen venture, it is largely that: a transplant and blow-up of a TV documentary to the big screen. In Earth, filmmakers Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill capture a caravan of elephants crossing the brutal Kalahari Desert, along with a pride of hungry lions, and the rainbow of natural marvels contained in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. The narrative theme is the sun, the source of life and the bringer of seasons, from one pole to the other. The film is narrated by James Earl Jones...
What is new here is remarkable. In one sequence shot entirely in night vision, a ghostly green pride of lions stakes out a watering hole and hunts and kills a young male elephant, in the midst of a violent electrical storm. Another scene shows a flock of cranes struggling against the wind to cross the Himalaya Mountains. (See the top 10 movie performances...