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...nation. At No. 2, Ko and Rosekrans played well but were downed, 8-6. In the singles portion, William & Mary attacked Harvard from the start. Ko put up the best fight in the No. 1 position against a very strong Moulton-Levy, ranked 12th in the nation. Ko, however, saw her two-match winning streak end as she lost, 6-3, 6-3. Schnitter and Peterzan also fell in straight sets to opponents ranked 55th and 83rd, respectively. In the No. 4 position, Rosekrans lost the first singles match of her career, 6-1, 6-1, to Klaudyna Kasztelaniec...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: End to Skidding Ways Not in Sight | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...gone well for the Harvard men’s basketball team this season. Losers of six straight in the Ivy League, the Crimson returned home on Friday against Cornell as a collection of bruised and battered souls. Having suffered through a five-game road stretch that saw no victories but plenty of misery, the sight of the Big Red (15-5, 7-0) rolling to town promised more of the same for the Harvard faithful. Heartbreak was in order for the struggling Crimson (6-17, 1-6 Ivy), which dropped a nail-biter, 72-71, in the final seconds.Consider this...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Heroics Send Crimson to Sixth Straight Loss | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...receives about $400 million in federal funding annually, the vast majority of which is dedicated to scientific research and channeled to the University through the NIH. For other areas of scientific funding, the effects of the budget were mixed: The National Science Foundation and basic Department of Energy research saw large increases, while both the basic and applied research programs of the Department of Defense saw cuts. The administration’s budget was better for financial aid, proposing an 18.5 percent increase in spending on Pell Grants. Overall, the budget allocates $2.6 billion more for the grants, which translated...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Increases Budget For Higher Ed | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...frenzy. The Lions were 7-for-12 from behind the arc in the second half. A minute later, Columbia tied the game at 59. The Crimson, however, answered right back, scoring the next eight points—six of which were put in by Rollins. “We saw a different team in the second half and had to match their intensity,” Rollins said. In the final three minutes, the Lions were unable to get any closer than five. Senior co-captain Lindsay Hallion and freshman Emma Markley, as well as Rollins and Tay, scored...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Rebuffs Lions | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...remarks. Some 16% of gay and transgender kids said they had been harassed because of their sexual orientation, but 18% said they had been harassed because of "the way you look or your body size." (Teachers reported they heard sexist comments more often than homophobic ones, and they also saw more harassment based on appearance and weight than on sexual orientation.) It's difficult to imagine the teenager who has never been painfully teased about something. We forget sometimes that to be a teenager - any teenager - is to learn to cope with the turbid, inchoate bigotries of still-developing minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosecuting the Gay Teen Murder | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

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