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...comes some reassuring news: Harvard College admissions are as watertight as ever, with only a mere 9.8 percent winnowed out of a pool of over 20,000. This new ratio—one lucky first-year out of ten??€”elicits pride from the Admissions Office and strikes fear into the hearts of every parent with a high school junior at home...
...much as Harvard fans have enjoyed getting to know FleetCenter staff during idle first-period conversations in ten??€”count ‘em, ten??€”consecutive 5 p.m. Beanpot games, they’d much prefer to pack some extra Maalox and watch their boys in the nightcap...
...potentially bring new insights into a discussion, but a larger group is also more likely to turn into a purely social event. For example, if each individual in a study group is expected to pay attention 90 percent of the time—or nine minutes out of every ten??€”a group of five will simultaneously focus just 60 percent of the time. The ideal size, then, is a small study group of three or four people, which allows for varying perspectives but is less likely to stumble into constant distraction...
...don’t know how to hide my nervousness when I’m interviewing someone important. I don’t know how to pronounce a lot of words that I insist on using in conversation (until yesterday, I thought portentous was pronounced pôr-ten??€™shus, not pôr-ten??€™tus). And I don’t know how to match my shirts with my ties...
...Welsh finally made Harvard pay just over two-thirds into the game, when she set up the Big Ten??€™s second-leading scorer, Heidi Drummond, for a header and a 1-1 tie. Then, with five minutes left, she drew Shields far out of the net and lobbed the ball over her for the game-winner...