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...volleyball team entered the weekend’s matches against Yale and Brown at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) determined to snap a two-game Ivy League losing streak, but both the Bears and the Bulldogs defeated Harvard’s injury-weakened lineup, as the Crimson slipped to 8-8 overall and 2-4 in the Ivy League.With starting libero Katherine Kocurek still out of action due to a day-to-day injury, many of Harvard’s players found themselves in unfamiliar positions. The effects of the shake-up were visible, as the Crimson?...
...Leary wrote in an accompanying editorial. “There is broad acceptance that cross-border comparisons are here to stay in higher education.” But Harvard’s lead in the rankings fell significantly from last year. O’Leary attributed the slip to Harvard’s “turbulent year.” Harvard, whose overall score of 100 this year was 3.2 percentage points higher than second-place Cambridge University’s score, topped MIT last year by 13 percentage points. The rankings were determined by a range of criteria...
...first round, yet credited his teammates when asked about the strong opening round. “The consistency shown by Greg Shuman and Mike Shore really set the tone for what could have been a good showing,” Hegge wrote in an email. The Crimson slipped a bit in the second round, posting a team score of 312, before improving with a 307 in the final round. The finish was good enough for ninth place in the field of 18 squads, just three strokes behind seventh-place finishers Birmingham-Southern and Yale. Shuman was indeed a model...
Shortbus, which opens today in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in other cities next week, is a sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...meetings used to be, and how tense and paranoid, even Soviet, they've become. We didn't talk so much as whisper, all the while eyeing the felt-covered furniture around us, half expecting a bearded agent to pop out from behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about how we could avoid being labeled enemies of the state. Who cares about uranium enrichment when you spend your days and nights fretting over whether...