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...seven-point turnaround by the Harvard men’s basketball team at the end of regulation led to two overtimes, but the Huskies (5-4) came out on top, 76-71, as they dismantled the Crimson (4-3) last night at Lavietes Pavilion...
Enter the NSSE (pronounced "Nessie"), which tries to provide a detailed picture of how well a school is judged by its customers, i.e., the students who attend them. At each participating campus, the survey asks freshmen and seniors to rate their school, using a seven-point scale, on wide-ranging topics that hit upon almost every element of a student's experience, from how often he interacts with faculty outside of class to how challenging he thinks his coursework is to how much non-academic support is available. The numeric scores can then be compared to other schools - that...
According to Myanmar Ahlin, a state-run newspaper, Burma's military government released Win Tin and 9,001 other prisoners this week so they could participate in national elections planned for 2010. The polls will be part of the regime's seven-point "Roadmap to Democracy." Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been ruled by a series of repressive military regimes since 1962. Classified by the United Nations as among the world?s least developed countries, the agrarian nation in southeast Asia is still recovered from May's Cyclone Nargis, which killed an estimated 80,000 people and devastated...
...Though both cases have been assigned the lowest rating on the seven-point scale of nuclear accidents, officials are moving to protect France's nuclear reputation. Even before news of Friday's incident broke, French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo ordered inspections of all 58 French nuclear installations and checks on radiation levels in the underground aquifers surrounding them. Borloo stressed there was no grounds to anticipate additional breaches. "I don't want people feeling we're hiding anything from them," Borloo told the daily Le Parisien...
...crowd came alive with the sense that victory was within reach. The Crimson drained buckets at will, with Lin scorching the nets for a team-high 20 points. The Princeton defense—left dumbfounded by Harvard’s out-of-nowhere resurgence—surrendered 15 unanswered points through the fourth and into the extra period. With 2:30 remaining in overtime, the Crimson found itself with a comfortable seven-point cushion—a far cry from its eight-point deficit five minutes earlier. In contrast to Princeton’s withering defense, the Harvard...