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This time around, however, Harvard (9-9, 2-0 Ivy) was the sharper of the two teams, relying on clutch hitting and superior pitching to propel it to a pair of tight 3-1 victories at Soldiers Field Saturday. Motivated not only by the excitement of its Ivy opener, but also by the opportunity for revenge against Brown (4-9-1, 0-2), the Crimson rolled to its sixth and seventh consecutive victories...
Summers expressed hope that the media coverage his remarks have generated will spur the University to address issues that the controversy has brought into sharper relief...
...second act, however, drops all pretenses of dark humor and becomes simply difficult to handle, as the truth behind A’s nostalgic ramblings during the first act becomes apparent. As the characters’ tongues become sharper (the second act largely consists of C asking the other two women to account for why they are so bitter), so do the themes— and the play subtly builds into a warning that one can never truly get beyond past mistakes, except in death...
Still, Summers boasted the same impressive intellect and vision as Bollinger, and supporters said that his years dealing with Washington bigwigs had softened his sharper edges. The icing on the cake: He had a Harvard degree. Every one of Harvard’s presidents, starting with the third, had at least one degree from the University...
These young people bring their stand-in parents a sharper, fresher perspective--and lots of laughs. A girl from Moldavia, for example, expected peanut butter to be butter studded with peanuts. A boy from Holland, told he would sleep in the "bunkhouse," what the family called their add-on bedroom, was visibly relieved to find that it wasn't, as in his Dutch-English dictionary, a toolshed in a field. Larilyn Carpenter, 56, a school principal in Waukesha, Wis., treasures the memory of her Brazilian "son" Luciano's tearing around outside her house late at night, rolling in his first...