Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raiders are likely the best team Harvard will play all year, and coach Tim Murphy said they definitely have the best offense among Harvard's opponents. But the biggest blow the Crimson could sustain this week has already been inflicted...
Harvard finished 9-1 (7-0 Ivy) last year, the school's best season in 78 years. The goal this year is to prove that Harvard has built a program that can sustain a series of good years. Beating Columbia would be the first step...
...cries out for an end to the madness, the media keeps running front page stories about the scandal's ins and outs. As the media adapts to the changing ways we get our news, though, the all-important editorial independence from business concerns gets harder and more costly to sustain. So if providing us with the gossip and entertainment we like is increasingly the goal of our news providers, perhaps the standard gripes against the media elite are wrong. Maybe the media needs to be more insulated from mainstream pressures...
...does Radcliffe sustain itself? Since Radcliffe transfers the "tuition" it collects directly to Harvard, Radcliffe pays for its activities mainly through the generosity of its alumnae. Radcliffe is currently in the middle of a capital campaign which, if successful, will double the college's endowment...
...classes populated by kids just like them. And low achievers do better. Says Slavin: "My argument is, Why would you continue grouping students if it doesn't seem to benefit anybody?" One answer: parents of motivated students tend to be pretty motivated and skilled at persuading school boards to sustain classes that provide something special for their children. In an era in which gaining admission to top-shelf high schools and colleges has become a blood sport, self-interest trumps community building most of the time. In Montclair, N.J., lawsuits brought by African-American parents in the late 1980s forced...