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...Harvard wrestling team has been waiting all fall to unveil its full potential, and this weekend the squad fired on all cylinders.The Crimson grapplers opened their season at the Binghamton Brute Open on Saturday, bringing a full roster to Johnson, N.Y. in order to test the team’s progress. With three finalists and two overall winners, it is safe to say Harvard earned a passing grade.“Overall, if this is the way we’re going to start [the season], I’m excited,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said...
...early 17th and early 18th centuries, like those of Monteverdi and Handel, but performances of works from the mid-to-late 1600s are rare. Thus, the ambition of the HEMS in selecting this somewhat hazardous reprisal is all the more admirable, but it also subjects itself to an intense test of finesse and intelligence. The uniqueness of its subject and the lack of sufficient previous efforts with which to compare it make judgment difficult. Even with these obstacles, though, it was obvious that the production’s attempts at achieving authentic style and presentation—elements that should...
...system also makes it extremely difficult to flunk a bad teacher. Each state has its own stories: A Connecticut teacher received a mere 30-day suspension for helping students cheat on a standardized test; one California school board spent $8,000 to fire an instructor who preferred using R-rated movies instead of books; a Florida teacher remained in the classroom for a year despite incidents in which she threw books at her students and demanded they referred...
Children who play a musical instrument perform better on tests of motor, auditory, vocabulary, and non-verbal reasoning skills, according to a study by Harvard researchers released last month. The study, which was led by co-principal investigators Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano...
...Disgusted, Taylor ended Laura Skye's relationship with Barmy but chose to stay with Pollard in real life. In an effort to test his commitment, Taylor hired a private investigator on Second Life named Markie Macdonald. Macdonald hatched a plan whereby a female avatar flirted with Barmy in an effort to lure him to her cyber-bed. Instead of succumbing to temptation, Barmy spoke of his strong feelings for Laura Skye...