Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second straight game, Harvard scored 50 or more points in the second half, but with the Red Foxes muscling the ball inside and picking up offensive rebounds, the Crimson defense was unable to make Harvard's offensive prowess count...
...either work as it does now or it can change its mission and structure, putting aside the multiple tasks that it takes upon itself and taking up the one, overwhelming fight for greater student input in decisions of the College and University. If the council decides on this second goal, it would need to drastically reform itself to create an organization that is able to produce campus protests, rallies...
Additionally, however, as a Connecticut resident not applying to Yale, I am displeased with The Crimson's unprofessional attitude towards New Haven. The city is home to 450,000 hard-working and well-educated residents, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, harbors the nation's second highest concentration of high-tech jobs in the nation after Silicon Valley. New Haven has more theaters than Boston, is within easy access of New York City, and has a contiguity of restaurants, nightspots, theaters and other shops surrounding the Yale campus. Frankly, downtown New Haven makes Cambridge look like a sterile, uninviting...
...massive infusion of effort would cause scores to improve so substantially that very few students would fail the exam, then perhaps the proposed high stakes system would be reasonable. However, overall scores rose only very slightly from the first time the test was taken to the second time. In some areas, scores fell despite classroom emphasis on test preparation. It seems clear that scores on this test, like the quality of education in general, can change only gradually. Three years is not enough time to improve a 40 percent failure rate to a reasonable success rate...
...acquire military secrets. The incident follows the arrest earlier this month by the U.S. military of a Navy code-breaker, Petty Officer First Class Daniel King, 40, who faces charges of passing secrets to Russia. The Russians detained a junior embassy staffer identified by Interfax as Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary of the U.S. embassy's military-political department, and accused her of working for the CIA to procure state secrets. She was later released, and Russia's Foreign Minister Igar Ivanov said he hoped the case would not harm relations with Washington...