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...Winning isn't everything, winning is the only thing," is a quote often attributed to either former Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi or deposed ex-President Richard Nixon. But after the Harvard women's basketball team lost to Rhode Island 77-57 on Saturday night to fall to 1-4, its attitude belied the truth of that old adage...
...Rhode Island (5-1) answered with an 11-0 spurt, scoring easy basket after easy basket in transition. Butler (22 points, 14 rebounds) stemmed the tide with a nice inside move, but the Rams finished the half strong to take a 28-25 lead going into the locker rooms...
However, much like their previous loss against Tulane, when the Crimson were outscored 53-37 in the second half, Harvard could not keep the game close in the second half. Rhode Island quickly outscored Harvard 15-8 to take an 11-point lead, and from then on the Crimson would not get closer than seven...
...even done"--we are left not only disappointed, but with no excuse to be in the men's bathroom. The women's bathroom, however, offers ample consolation, for on the stalls are a cornucopia of persuasive prose. Wars of words rage over race, gender, sexuality and the Rhode Island School of Design...
...benefits come courtesy of the courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which wants to extend the protections under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to obese people. Last week a federal appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold an order that required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000 in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiring her, and then ordered that she be hired as an attendant at a mental retardation facility. "Obesity may, in appropriate circumstances, constitute a disability," the EEOC said in its amicus brief. "It is not necessary...