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...With both men’s and women’s track and field showing marked improvement in head coach Jason Saretsky’s tenure, this weekend’s Ivy League Championships at Gordon Track allowed the squad to show its progress. The women jumped to third place, building on last year’s fourth-place effort, as the men also gained one position, claiming seventh...
...Crimson was determined to prove that it +has been making gains on some of the top skiing teams in the country with which it competes and should not be viewed as the doormat of the northeastern skiing circle for much longer. While the Harvard squads did not show significant progress this weekend in Sugarloaf, Maine, they did finish a season-high ninth place at the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships. The improved performance left the squads in good spirits heading into next year.“While this season did not quite live up to my expectations, I have seen...
Medical advances may also play into legal arguments. Wolpe says progress has allowed the terminally ill to live longer, but it has transformed dying from something that occurs relatively quickly and painlessly to something more drawn out and potentially agonizing. "So," he says, "some people have decided that if we are going to intervene in the natural act of dying and allow people to live even though disease is rampant in their body, we can't make someone's decision to die the one exception to our meddling." And if assisted suicide remains illegal, Satz says it could force more...
...Jewels” is an ambitious piece, particularly because its emotional and artistic impact relies so much on the precision and perfection with which it is performed. The very fact that the Boston Ballet would undertake such a challenging piece symbolizes the organization’s progress to a more educated audience. As the “Jewels” playbill notes, “in producing Jewels, Boston Ballet enters a league that includes such major international companies as The Royal Ballet/Covent Garden, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Maryinsky Theater’s Kirov Ballet...
...West and the possibility of resumed peace talks with Israel could be derailed if the tribunal issues indictments for senior Syrian figures. Given the stakes, it is no surprise that suspicions have arisen of a deal being concocted in which the Syrian leadership is spared prosecution in exchange for progress on peace with Israel, loosening its close ties to Iran and an end to meddling in Lebanon...