Word: squashing
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...League Player of the Year? Nah. The individual national championship and the season-ending No. 1 ranking that goes along with it? Definitely not. In fact, about the only thing that tips you off that Lorentzen is a freshman is the ’09 on the Harvard squash team roster—that and the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award she garnered in addition to the player of the year nod. Lorentzen’s success at the college level isn’t really a surprise, because while she was new to Harvard, she was hardly...
From a serialized novel by a member of the class of 1964 to “opinionated commentary” with daily haiku to remarks by Harvard squash team coach, readers can find a variety of blogs on a newly-upgraded server launched last Friday by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Harvard Law School (HLS).The launch coincided with a all-day conference on blogging called “Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship,” which boasted appearances from well-known names in the blogosphere such as Eugene Volokh...
...despite their abundance—have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer. Why then, do the best and the brightest continue to flock to Harvard? Some come for a specific scientist, others come for the squash team, but most, I wager, come for the fulfillment of definition “b”: a network and a job. In all of Harvard’s history, these two aspects of the “Harvard experience” have blossomed in a symbiotic, cyclic relationship; students...
...effort by the U.S. intelligence community to make thousands of declassified documents secret once again. To Tom Blanton, head of the G.W.U.-affiliated National Security Archive, which monitors government secrecy, the FBI's request to scrub Anderson's files "looks like another front in the government-wide effort to squash dissent...
...controversy came in the midst of Opus Dei's attempt to squash what it thinks will be a negative caricature of its own group in the upcoming movie version of The Da Vinci Code. Having failed for months to privately extract a promise from Sony not to actually name the organization behind the self-flagellating assassin in the film, Opus on Monday went public with a letter on its website requesting that Sony add a "disclaimer" before the movie explaining that it is fiction, admonishing that "an eventual decision of Sony in this direction would be a sign of respect...