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...Defense prevailed for the first half of the last period. McKenna continued to shine, turning away shot after shot to stop the Big Green attack. Sprong scored his third goal seven minutes into the fourth quarter to put Harvard up six. Gottschall scored back-to-back goals-one of them in a man-up situation-several minutes later as Harvard continued to pour...
...certain air raid that plunged our nation into WWII. Like Titanic, it features a love triangle (between the very attractive Kate Beckinsale and hunks Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), shots of ships sliding perpendicularly into the sea, as well as awe-inspiring special effects; where the movie should really shine, is not only the imagery of flaming wreckage littering the Hawaiian landscape, but also the truly haunting sight of warplanes flying so close to the ground that baseball-playing kids and laundry-drying housewives must duck for cover. As the two leading men, Hartnett and Affleck (who character is ridiculously...
...University on Thursday. Sent from the Office of the President (presoff@fas.harvard.edu), and addressed to me alone, it carried the subject line “Message from the President.” Finally, Neil L. Rudenstine had taken a special interest in my life. He probably took a shine to me the first (and only) time we met, at the first-year welcome barbecue. And now, he wanted to check in on me, to see how my four years had been going, perhaps ask my advice on a matter of University policy...
...different rates, and parents whose child can read by age 3 may thus conclude that they somehow threaded the teaching needle perfectly, introducing letters and words at just the right time. But the reality is often that they simply got lucky and had a kid who took a shine early on to a particular skill. "People took the notion of a critical period and misunderstood it to apply to all learning," says Dr. Sparrow of Children's Hospital...
...different rates, and parents whose child can read by age 3 may thus conclude that they somehow threaded the teaching needle perfectly, introducing letters and words at just the right time. But the reality is often that they simply got lucky and had a kid who took a shine early on to a particular skill. "People took the notion of a critical period and misunderstood it to apply to all learning," says Dr. Sparrow of Children's Hospital...