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...three-pointer from an extra foot away or going to work on the low block with newly found space, Crimson players, young and old, will have to take on the new challenge of a 20’, 9’’ three-point line in their pursuit of the 2008-09 Ancient Eight crown...
...than too feminine—Sarah Palin coyly and repeatedly played into many of her gender’s stereotypes. As her political blunders added up, she revealed her complete unpreparedness for politics at a national level and became Sen. John McCain’s greatest liability in his pursuit of the presidency...
More commendable than mere success is the ambitious pursuit of excellence above and beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study...
...anthropology department and the Harvard University Native American Program to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Indian College, an oft-neglected component of Harvard’s earliest campus. The college, which was located near where Matthews Hall now stands, was intended to encourage Native youth in the pursuit of “knowledge and godliness,” as Harvard’s first charter instructed. The display’s artifacts were grouped thematically: “Literacy and the Indian College” recalled that the Indian College also housed the continent’s first printing...
...pursuit are the migra, or border-patrol agents, played by other Hnahnu. Most migrants have been nabbed at least once and know well what it feels like to get a pair of handcuffs slapped on after days of exhausting travel. The actors play their nemeses with energy and zest, tearing across fields to get the migrants and insulting them in a colorful language: "Don't you speak Spanish. You are not in Mexico now, my friend. Tell me who the boss...