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Harvard entered the three-game championship seeded eighth out of eight teams, knowing that a victory over some of the top seeds would propel the Crimson into the NCAA tournament. But while Harvard did improve on last year’s 12-16 record, a win was not in the cards...
...more than her scoring that helped propel the Crimson to victory. Down the stretch, VanderMeulen picked up key draw controls that allowed Harvard to maintain possession long enough to drain the clock and make a Princeton comeback impossible, as the Crimson finished the contest ahead...
Brady, who competed in three events on the weekend, helped propel the men’s team to their third-place finish. The senior took fourth place in the shot put with a distance of 15.28 meters—just behind freshman teammate Edward Brucker—took second in the discus throw with a distance of 46.92m, and captured first in the hammer throw with a distance...
...there any moments that stick in your head as really key advancements Norris and Gettler made to propel the field of forensic medicine? Gettler did the first work that allowed scientists to tell that a person had been intoxicated at time of death. He designed not only the test but had to build the equipment himself. The guy was amazing. The first work proving that lead in gasoline was dangerous to the rest of us - they did that. The first work proving that if you intake radium your bones are radioactive for many years after you're dead - they...
...grapples with the reality of the situation we are in, which is a fiscal nightmare." Being intellectually honest, of course, is often politically dangerous. With Republicans "still skittish," Wehner says, about jeopardizing their political momentum at a time when mere opposition to the President seems to be enough to propel them to gains in this year's midterm elections, Ryan may be forcing a conversation his party is unwilling to have. That's a risk that Ryan, who defied party doctrine by supporting the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the auto-industry bailout, is willing to take. "I put this...