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...Obviously he’s very discouraged right now,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “I think the size factor is an issue. If you look at the size of the Yale players, they are bigger, taller, longer [than Goffredo]. And they’re not afraid to violate principles of defense to stay with...
...what looked like an easy two points. But as the big man went up for the dunk, two Harvard defenders converged to contest the shot, and Harris got a hand on the ball to knock it away. Harris then beat Naeve on the offensive end, scoring over the taller player with a lefty hook shot. On the next possession, Housman stole the ball from guard Louis Dale and fed a streaking Harris for another big two-handed dunk, which gave Harvard a 63-58 lead and brought the crowd to a frenzy. “That’s huge...
...They took advantage of the fact that now there weren’t that many people around,” Paik said. “The taller one swung an umbrella really hard at the top of my head...
...They took advantage of the fact that now there weren't that many people around," Paik said. "The taller one swung an umbrella really hard at the top of my head...
...nowhere nearly as risky and disfiguring as amputation, Diekema says. It just accelerates a natural process by which the body stops growing. Parents who give their short children growth hormones do so for social more than medical reasons, he notes. How can it be O.K. to make someone "unnaturally" taller but not smaller? To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way. "The argument that a beneficial treatment should not be used because it might be misused is itself a slippery slope," he says. "If we did not use therapies available because they could be misused...