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...were extremely tough to work with,” freshman sensation Annie DeAngelo added. Overall, the Crimson finished 11th in a field of 20, nine points behind tenth-place Yale. With junior Liz Powers out with an MCL injury, DeAngelo and fellow freshman Emily Lambert were called upon to step up and fill in. After winning their B-division race last week, Lambert was moved up to division A and DeAngelo manned the fort in division B, skippering for the first time all season. Despite their talent, signs of youth showed in this match, and as a result, skipper Lambert...
...building Bulldog offensive pressure and keeping its opponents scoreless. The effort was led by Nyamekye, as well as co-captain Luke Sager and freshman goalkeeper Austin Harms—who tallied his first start and first shutout of the season in the contest. Harvard has taken its first step towards an Ivy League crown, but with over a month of hard matchups left in the regular season, the Crimson is looking to improve upon its weaknesses. “[We need] to be a little more consistent,” Nyamekye said. “We have lots of peaks...
...have been proposals for improving the city’s middle schools in the past, School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi, who chairs the Blue Ribbon Commission with Fowler-Finn, said there had never been meetings like these to discuss the issue with the public. Fowler-Finn, who will step down as superintendent in four months, is expected to present several formal recommendations to the school committee in November. In December, the committee will make the final decision on whether to proceed with any plan of action. But Grassi emphasized that the committee would be prudent in their decision making...
...what about Barack Obama? You're a big supporter of his, right? I'm a big Obama supporter, but I think he's just horribly wrong on this issue. I think it's just part of who he is. He's on the side that government needs to step in and do something. I disagree strongly...
Still, the paper is complex, so it's useful to step back first and look at where the larger debate over the gender wage gap stands. After all, isn't that gap narrowing to the point of obscurity? Actually, no. The Russell Sage Foundation published the most authoritative work on the gender wage gap in 2006, The Declining Significance of Gender?. In the book, Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, both Cornell economists, show that the average full-time female worker in the U.S. earns about 79% of what the average full-time male worker makes. Women employed full-time actually...