Word: strides
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...friend who recently spent the weekend with Rumsfeld and his wife predicted Rumsfeld would stay for the duration: "They will have to pry him from his stand-up desk with a crowbar." In Cairo last week, Rumsfeld tried to take it all in stride. "If every time two or three people disagreed, we changed the Secretary of Defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round." But Rumsfeld may again be underestimating the strength of an insurgency--this one in his own backyard. Other retired officers are expected to make their views known soon. Which means...
...11th with the Crimson, rounding out the promising results as Harvard looks to improve on last season’s last-place finish at the Ivy League Championships, which will be held next weekend in Hamburg, N.J. “We’re all kind of hitting our stride,” Hegge said. “We have just as much talent as the other teams, but we just have to put the scores together,” he added. Princeton won the event comfortably last year, with Cornell, Penn, Columbia, and Brown tightly bunched in second through...
...will eliminate the family contribution for students with family incomes under $60,000 per year. But the good news comes with a sobering addition: tuition will rise this fall to a total of $43,655 per student. The expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) is a great stride in Harvard’s financial aid efforts. Previously, HFAI waived family contributions only for students with family incomes under $40,000 per year. In recent years, Stanford and Yale had one-upped Harvard’s promise by waiving tuition for families with incomes less than...
...clock wound down on the second period. With just over seven seconds remaining in the frame, the pivot carried the puck through the neutral zone and beat two defenders before dekeing right and firing a backhander high over Devine’s blocker—all without breaking his stride. The late tally gave Harvard a 6-0 lead at the second intermission. Gaudet had seen enough, and he replaced Devine with rookie Dan Goulding to start the final frame. “Sometimes the puck has eyes,” Gaudet said. “They made good plays...
...clock wound down on the second period. With just over seven seconds remaining in the frame, the pivot carried the puck through the neutral zone and beat two defenders before dekeing right and firing a backhander high over Devine’s blocker—all without breaking his stride. The late tally gave Harvard a 6-0 lead at the second intermission. Gaudet had seen enough, and he replaced Devine with rookie Dan Goulding to start the final frame. “Sometimes the puck has eyes,” Gaudet said. “They made good plays...