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...just want to emphasize this point. People will help one another if they believe it matters. People will vote, for crying out loud, if they think it matters. This is truly a revolution for democracy and human rights, and as you said, it's just getting started. GALEN PANGER Stanford, Calif...
...more than one win.”Perhaps more than any coach save George Mason’s Jim Larranaga, Delaney-Smith knows the weight of such non-conference triumphs against nationally recognized opponents. In 1998, her 16th-seeded Crimson team did the impossible, stunning No. 1-seeded Stanford in the NCAA Tournament with a 71-67 win in Palo Alto. Harvard was then led by First-Team All-American Allison Feaster, and the Crimson’s victory marked the first—and perhaps last—time a 16-seed downed a No. 1 in the NCAA...
...really got interested in it just by watching sports fans walk by my rented apartment in Berkeley. I was teaching there for a semester. I was watching the football fans go by on Sundays, and I couldn't help but notice that they were costumed - red for Stanford - and there were painted faces and so on. What I argue in the book is people have managed to carnivalize sports events, to turn them into occasions for feasting, costuming, masking and dancing. They literally dance in Latin American soccer stadiums, but in North America, they are more likely doing the Wave...
...have 23,000 or 24,000 overall applicants, I think, but who knows what the number might be,” Fitzsimmons said. There is, however, the concern that applicant numbers might decrease as potential students may apply and accept early decisions at other schools such as Yale and Stanford. “That’s been an issue for a very long time,” he said. “Previously we were always faced with the idea that some very good students would end up choosing binding early decisions at other universities instead of applying here...
Among the names being vetted by the search committee are Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, Institute of Medicine President Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, Penn President Amy Gutmann ’71, University of Cambridge head Alison F. Richard, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, and Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman...