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...Currier defense--guided by Tom Reeves and Sven Gramnerstorf--gave a stellar performance, stymieing the Leverett offense throughout the game...
This aversity to schooling stands opposed to the experience of Jewish immigrants. Though most started as laborers, and many were in fact illiterate, their sons and daughters devoured the reading material of public libraries, while showing themselves conscientious pupils in the less-than-stellar public schools of their day. But Sowell dwells on much more than their cultural propensity for education; he sings the hymns that have distinguished the Jewish people for millenia: their resourcefulness, their adaptability, their reverence for knowledge, and their resilience in the face of oppression. His judgements are hardly fatuous, but the product of careful research...
While thousands of Harvard students cheered lustily last weekend at the numerous Princeton-Harvard encounters here in Cambridge, one of Harvard's most outstanding and successful teams--the women's sailing squad--capped off a stellar season in relative obscurity by handily winning the Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta in the Charles River Basin...
Gleefully sipping champagne at an afternoon celebration, Bloembergen and his colleagues attributed the recent rash of Nobel Laureates--seven in the last three years--to Harvard's demanding tenuring process, which they said winnows out all but the most stellar of scholars in a manner similar to the Nobel selection format of the Swedish Academy...
Joining the sea of 6000 women in the Bonne Bell 10 Kilometer road race on Columbus Day were members of the Harvard women's swim team and the Princeton women's swim team. Finishing with stellar times for the Crimson were sophomore CINDY PHILLIPS (45 minutes), and assistant swim coach PATTI CASHMAN (47 minutes). Also finishing under 50 minutes were aquawomen VICKI GORMAN, DEBBIE ZIMIC, JEANNE FLOYD, SHELBY CALVERT, CARY MAZZONE, and co-captain PAM STONE. Coach VICKI HAYS laughingly just said "I finished." The Princeton women--who ran a seven-miler the previous week for training--did well...