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With the top defense in Division I-AA in town on Saturday, it was no shock that the game turned on a late turnover.The surprise came when it was Harvard’s defense, not Lafayette’s, that made the big play in the end.A 91-yard interception return for a touchdown by senior cornerback Steven Williams late in the fourth quarter preserved the Crimson’s narrow lead and helped Harvard (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) hold on for a 27-17 win over the Leopards (4-2) in front of 10,001 fans at Harvard...
...issues of access and cost persist—for middle-class families who suffer terrifying sticker shock, and for graduate and professional students, who may incur enormous debt as they pursue service careers in fields where salaries are modest. As graduate training comes to seem almost as indispensable as the baccalaureate degree for mobility and success, the cost of these programs takes on even greater importance...
...Issues of access and cost persist—for middle-class families who suffer terrifying sticker shock, for graduate and professional students, who may incur enormous debt as they pursue service careers in fields where salaries are modest," Faust said...
...world filled with writers who write badly and stories that sell on shock value alone, there’s something satisfying about a book that manages to excel at both: butchering the English language while writing about a topic at once vulgar and banal. Hence my joy upon hearing of the release of “That Bitch: Protect Yourself Against Women with Malicious Intent,” a book that refers to the fairer sex as “domestic terrorists” or “Al’Qa’ida in high heels and lipsticks...
...China. But she learned quickly that being ethnically Chinese has some disadvantages for a U.S. executive. "Customers, particularly the older ones, thought nothing of lecturing me on how I speak," says Ho, who speaks conversational but not business Mandarin. On the other hand, she skipped some of the culture shock that slams many newly arrived expats. She is comfortable enough in her Shanghai skin to scold a woman who recently jumped a long queue at Ho's neighborhood bakery. Ho says her swift adaptation to Chinese culture, along with the very American networking skills she used to cultivate mentors...