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...against highly touted Alex Lacroix of Florida. In addition, seven Crimson players traveled to Dartmouth’s Big Green Invitational, where they stole the show from the home team. According to coach Dave Fish ’72, Harvard won all its match tiebreakers, a rare feat indicating that these players, who usually play toward the bottom of the Crimson rotation, thrive under pressure.Freshmen Alexei Chijoff-Evans and Aba Omodele-Lucien cruised to the championship in the A doubles bracket.The B singles championship to be held today will feature two Harvard freshmen, Will Guzick and Tim Wu. Sophomore Michael...
...last year of the study. The National Hospital Discharge Survey, which began tallying newborn circumcisions in 1979, shows a downward trend, from 65% that year to 57% in 2005. Much of the decline is attributed to immigration from Latin America and Asia, where the procedure is rare. Additionally, in more than a dozen states, Medicaid no longer covers the surgery routinely, leaving many poor children without the option. But intactivism is also gaining traction among educated, middle-class whites. As University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox observes, "It's these new parents that are unwilling to let kids suffer...
...procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson, of Fort Worth, Texas, says her 5-year-old has two genital disorders due to his botched circumcision...
It’s very rare to see a team win and still drop in the polls, but voters are responding a string of two straight relatively uninspiring victories from the Bulldogs. First, they needed three overtimes to dispel a two-win Penn team and last weekend they were blanked for 33 minutes by last-place Columbia...
...contained. The web creates an ethos in which works succeed also by linking outward from themselves. Both have value. You can do both digitally.”In addition to becoming easily searchable, digitized libraries are becoming much more readily available. Houghton Library, Harvard’s holder of rare books and manuscripts, is in the process of digitizing selected pieces from its catalog. Medieval manuscripts and digitized papyri can already be found in striking clarity and vivid color online. The digital images may even show more than the naked eye can see; a viewer can enlarge and zoom...