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...captain Mike Fucito said. “We knew coming in this would be a tough game. They always play us tough.” The Crusaders entered the game undefeated in its last three appearances and currently lead the Patriot League.standings. This was supposed to be a tough test for Harvard, who is ranked for the first time since the beginning of its fall season. Only outshooting Holy Cross by one, the Crimson simply took advantage of key opportunities to notch a resounding win. “When we got opportunities to score, we did,” Fucito...
...nursery is a false Eden, because class inequalities are already at work. According to a 2007 report by the nonprofit Sutton Trust, cognitive test scores of bright 3-year-olds from the poorest British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
Richard Jones, SNV’s Latin American Communications Officer, wrote in an e-mail that the company’s recent partnership will allow the Harvard researchers “to develop and test [their] screening technology in a wider sample of developing countries” while allowing SNV to continue “promoting inclusive business in Latin America...
...three splits, but unfortunately, Stanford took the last split by the slimmest margin,” Schreck said. Overall, Schreck and his crewmates were satisfied with their results. “Each race is a step along the way, and the [Head of the Charles] was definitely our first test of the year,” Schreck said. “We were happy with the way we competed but we know that there is still work to do.”In the other heavyweight competition, the Harvard championship eight finished a solid 13th among 27 other entries. Despite...
Although the sport's name is only 27 years old, the idea has been around ever since Lenormand took his first step off the building to test his parachute - a contraption resembling an oversized umbrella, which he had invented to help people escape burning buildings. On February 2, 1912, in much the same spirit, 35-year-old Frederick Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty's observation platform. He and his 100-pound parachute landed with a thud on Liberty Island's stone coping, a few yards from the water. A Russian man named Vladimir Ossovski performed a similar stunt...