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...Crimson rode the highlight-reel offense of junior Mike Taylor and a crunch-time defensive stop by junior Tyler Magura to an electric come-from-behind win.Just 24 hours later, however, Harvard submitted one of its sloppiest and most lackluster performances, squandering an early two-goal lead to succumb, 4-2, to the Tigers. The contest saw Richter pulled from the net after the game-winning score trickled through his legs.“I’m embarrassed,” captain Dylan Reese said after the loss. “This is the first time that...
That said, YouTube's audience is growing fast, and there is a certain inevitability to Schmidt's vision of a world where all content producers succumb to the rules of the Web. Hagel, a veteran at parsing the strategic implications of the Internet for business, thinks established media should be trying to "build relationships with audience members" by recommending content made by others and encouraging participation. He's probably right about this, but lots of purely online companies--among them Yahoo! and, yes, Google--are working on it too. The upshot is that content may increasingly have to stand...
Abstinence is not for the faint of heart; it effectively separates men from boys, weeding out those who succumb weakly to temptation from those who are worthy of a woman’s attention. Unfortunately, too often, our society falsely suggests that sexual experience is a “must-have,” encouraging men to boast (often fictitiously) of weekend hook-ups, glorifying a culture of empty promiscuity. Yet, this is not for a lack of understanding men: uncouth and socially inept though many Harvard men may be, I can attest to the existence of many upstanding, good...
...world of big-time college soccer is a lot like the world of big-time youth soccer. To navigate the terrain of either place is to succumb to an essentially nomadic existence. It’s a choice that many Americans are willing to make...
...responsibilities ofa modern presidential candidate--he has promised his wife Michelle that he will try to quit smoking. "I've quit periodically over the last several years," he says. "I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don't succumb. I've been chewing Nicorette strenuously." Obama is learning what many aspirants to the White House have learned before him--we expect our Presidents to be perfect...