Word: retreating
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Whatever it is, something about that halftime buzzer and the retreat to the locker room flips a switch for the Harvard women’s basketball team. Yet another second half surge, this one spurred on by the Crimson bench, led Harvard to a 78-69 win in Ithaca and a season sweep of the Big Red on Friday. The Crimson reserves exploded for 28 second-half points as Harvard erased a nine-point halftime deficit and overcame Cornell’s torrid shooting from beyond the arc. “We’ve got to get ourselves motivated...
...member of the Undergraduate Council (UC) and one of the organizers of yesterday’s event. “For every one of them, there are also colleagues of theirs who are too easily distracted, who are far too ready to hesitate, to retreat on the past three years of the curricular review...
...generally impotent and that its philosophies are misguided. Now is our chance to dissolve it and leave something better for posterity (perhaps, if we act quickly enough, for current underclassmen to have the choice between completing their general education curriculum through Core requirements or distributional alternatives). Any hesitation or retreat on this issue will translate only to more generations of Harvard College students encumbered by the same antiquated regime of general education. There is no reason to balk now: ultimately the decision about general education requirements (like most other curricular review decisions) is in the hands of the Faculty...
...University. If the Corporation commits itself to the best parts of Summers’ legacy, then these past five years will be remembered, not as tragedy, but as the first part of a great renewal of this great university. If instead, the Corporation’s response is to retreat and leave the vision behind with the man, then the past year will be a watershed marking the onset of Harvard’s decline...
...hundred years. "That's a few feet per century," says Oppenheimer, "which may not sound like a lot, but it's more than society can handle. In places like the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a 1-ft. vertical rise in sea level means a 100-ft. retreat of shoreline." In low-lying countries like Bangladesh, the resulting flooding could dwarf the 2004 tsunami...