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...course, symbols matter. Court cases dealing with Executive power over Guantánamo detainees will directly affect relatively few people, but such cases help strike the philosophical balance between security and human rights that is relevant to the entire nation and to America's place in the world. As Harvard professor Frederick Schauer pointed out in an influential recent law-review article, however, "most of the court's agenda lies some distance from the nation's." Compounding this is the fact that the court is tackling fewer cases than at any other time in the past half-century. Last term...
...College administration and the Undergraduate Council (UC) over the UC’s party fund, the final score has yet to be reached. But one thing remains certain: Students and student groups will be the first casualties of this battle unless both hot-headed parties back down and strike an amicable compromise.Because of a deep-rooted belief that, in the words of Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, the UC “cannot be trusted,” the College has flexed its muscles and threatened to not cut the UC a check until it terminates...
...study looked at the blood of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon. An astonishing 13% of them showed clear signs of hyponatremia, and three were at the danger level. The condition is most likely to strike novice runners, as élite athletes don't want to lose seconds by slowing down at the water stations that line race routes--and they know from experience that they don't have...
...area that plagued the team in its two losses this season.It was Harvard’s one unsuccessful red zone trip, however, which was indicative of the team’s troubles putting the proverbial nail in the coffin this year.Driving early in the fourth quarter, a 17-yard strike from senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to senior wideout Matt Lagace set up a first-and-goal for the Crimson at the Cornell 5-yard line. A rush by freshman quarterback Collier Winters got the ball to the 1-yard line, but the three Harvard runs that followed netted almost nothing...
...drive of the second half to pull to within four points of the Crimson at 19-15, a deficit that had been 19-0 with just 3:11 to play in the second quarter.Momentum would not stay with Cornell long, however, as Harvard responded with a 51-yard touchdown strike from senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti to sophomore wideout Matt Luft on the ensuing drive, giving the Crimson (2-2, 2-0 Ivy) a 25-15 lead on the way to a 32-15 victory over the Big Red (2-2, 0-2 Ivy) in front of 10,619 fans...