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Part of that is because of his size, which is not outstanding for his position--"I'm the smallest defensive end in Division I," he jokes--more of the non-recognition however, comes from the peculiarities of football at Harvard...
Northwestern has plenty of excuses: it is the only private school in the Big Ten, with fewer than 7,000 undergraduates (next smallest in the conference is Iowa with 24,000). Northwestern also believes football players should be able to read and write. A grade point average of at least 2.7 is required, compared with 2.2 at other Big Ten schools. The athletic budget was nearly doubled last year to $4 million, but it is still the lowest in the conference...
...down the boulevards of Europe's major capitals, some 200,000 in Brussels (the largest demonstration in the city since World War II), almost 200,000 in London, another 200,000 in Rome, taking to the streets to oppose deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe. The smallest turnout was in Paris, where only 40,000 marched, a reflection of the fact that France remains on the periphery of the peace movement that is rising across the Continent. The Communists were the only major party supporting the protest, and President François Mitterrand's ruling Socialists...
...three Americans, a Swede and a Japanese, for helping open windows on that frenzied dance of the atoms. In their work, they used one of the more esoteric tools of 20th century science: quantum mechanics, a mathematical way of looking at the paradoxically dual nature of matter, whose smallest components sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles. But their results have everyday importance, for example, in the development of techniques for measuring pollution and the creation of new drugs and chemicals...
...Union Jack was lowered and in its place rose the red, white and blue flag of Belize. The former colony once known as British Honduras became the world's newest nation and, with a population of 150,000, one of its smallest...