Word: rhode
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...lead. Although Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph threw three picks, Yale needed two overtimes to pull out the 31-28 victory. After beating Harvard for the first time in eight years last weekend, Brown dropped the ball, succumbing to a 37-13 defeat at the hands of instate rival Rhode Island The rest of the league played out as expected, as Princeton topped Columbia in a close 27-24 contest, and Penn beat up on Ivy basement dweller Dartmouth, 23-10. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu
...report by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, which spanned 2005 to 2007 and covered some 15,000 homes, said about a quarter provided a "substandard quality of care." In Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington, D.C., 100% of homes had deficiencies. The lowest rate was in Rhode Island...
...fresh off a confidence-building 38-14 win over Patriot League punching bag Georgetown.I think Yale will get back on its feet in time to be a contender in the Ivies, but not this week.Prediction: Holy Cross 24, Yale 20BROWN (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) AT RHODE ISLAND (1-4)A particularly annoying expression goes, “To be the best you gotta beat the best.” While it’s premature to call Brown the Ivy League’s best, the Bears are certainly in control of their own destiny now after last week?...
...went to school at the Rhode Island School of Design. What did you major in? I was a film major with a concentration in animation...
...pleasure lies in the piquancy of the writer-state pairings. Some are more obvious--heavy hitter Jonathan Franzen handles New York. Some are less so--imagine the editors' relief when they remembered that Jhumpa Lahiri hails from tiny Rhode Island (which, as she points out, is not an island!). There's something about their home state that puts writers in confessional moods. Picture Anthony Bourdain lighting M-80s ("It's a quarter stick a dynamite!!") as a j.d. in Jersey or a teenage Joshua Ferris cruising the canals of Florida with Jimmy Buffett (at the time he didn't know...