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...more-than-disappointing 2006 season in which it mustered just three wins, the Harvard women’s soccer team faced a plethora of offseason questions. Who would replace head coach Erica Walsh, who left Cambridge for Penn State after just one season? Who would provide the offensive spark in 2007 after the Crimson was shut out nine times in 17 games? How would Harvard move from a disappointing team to a dangerous one? New head coach Ray Leone and an outstanding freshman class were ready with the answers. Behind new faces and a new attitude, Harvard turned...
...these films were shown outside the main competition for the Palme d'Or. Hmmm, let's see. Is Angelina in the new film directed by Clint? (No surnames needed.) Then they will be there, if only to spark a new tabloid nickname: Clangelina. (And Brad came too.) Actually, Eastwood's movie, Changeling, is an honorable, fact-based drama about police corruption and child abuse in 1920s Los Angeles, with Jolie somewhat miscast as an ordinary single mom whose son is kidnapped, then found, only for her to discover that another boy claiming to be the son has returned...
...open the doors of lite academies to the masses: in 1947, veterans made up almost half the nation's college students. It also offered low-interest, no-money-down mortgages, backed by the U.S. government, that allowed millions of families to purchase their first homes. The move helped spark the postwar baby boom and the suburbanization of America in the 1950s: it effectively created the American middle class...
...means that the principles of openness and elegance and mischief of creative thinking is a spark for all of Harvard and of University beyond,” Nesson said. “That’s what it means...
...amazing," marvels a recent article in The New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper.* Privately, however, they must be getting nervous. Ordinary Burmese are horrified by the suffering of their compatriots and angry at the junta's inadequate attempts to alleviate it. Their humanitarian efforts could well spark a political one, especially as it also involves Buddhist monks, who last September led the biggest anti-government protests Burma had seen for nearly 20 years...