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Dave Phillips pushed the relay team to a slight lead with a strong showing in the backstroke. Breaststroker Jack Ewing maintained the advantage and best his nemesis, Sawyer, by less than a tenth of a second. Tim Maximoff lengthened the Crimson's lead during his butterfly leg, and freestyler Andy Lockman held off Pollard to reach the touchpad first...
...diversity is nothing without contact, and liberty means little when it fosters closed-mindedness and separatism. Administrators have declined to tamper with the lottery because of one "risk"--that students might feel denied a privilege and act on it. That gamble seems slight compared to the risk Harvard runs--and has not entirely avoided--by maintaining a preferential, stereotype-reinforcing lottery; it is one that Harvard's Ivy rivals have taken successfully. Harvard is right to tread slowly when it may be encroaching on student privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like...
Until eight minutes into the first half, Harvard was able to compete with its New Haven opponents. In fact, the Crimson managed to maintain a slight lead throughout most of the period...
...memorial to his son Michael, who died in 1961 at the age of 23 while collecting artifacts made by the Asmat people of western New Guinea. Young Rockefeller is thought to have drowned at sea; no trace of him was ever found. Though his contribution to anthropology was slight, he brought back quite a lot of Asmat art, and the works of this previously obscure swamp folk have been given an immense memorial prominence...
Prout, who compiles the standard dean's recommendation for each Med School student based on letters from professors, added that he has already noticed a slight change in the tone of the reports from some faculty members...