Word: third world
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...would do for an encore. Last year’s Harvard Crimson Female Rookie of the Year, sophomore foilist Emily Cross already boasted a Junior World Championship title and All-America status. With such an accomplished resume, even she did not know what more she could do to prove herself on the junior circuit. And then she helped the Harvard fencing squad to its best season ever. After that: a repeat of her Junior Worlds glory. It was an improbable ending to a season that started off slowly; despite strong performances in Ivy play, Cross struggled in international competition...
It was a dangerous move.Every coach in the country would have said that it was the wrong thing to do in that situation. It was too risky, too exposing. With everything on the line, a simple error would mean that it was all over.But it worked.As Benjamin Ungar lunged forward...
...supported and still warmly support the Harvard Foundation as an alternative to a Third World Center,” Bok writes in an e-mail. The Foundation “helps carry out the fundamental philosophy behind diversity...that a diverse student body can provide a richer and more fruitful educational experience for everyone...
...were responding to a situation that was unprecedented," Gomes says, calling the creation of the Foundation a "bit of a gamble." "If we were rejecting the Third World model, which we clearly were, we had to replace it with something, our sort of unique formula." At the time, Gomes told The Crimson it would take a few years for the contribution of the Foundation to be felt...
...Frankly, the most influential work I ever did was an article back in 1996 on ordinary third world ailments that kill lots of people,” Kristof adds. “Bill Gates happened to read the article at a moment when he was wondering how to reorient his foundation, and he credits the article—actually, the chart that went with it—with helping him think about using his foundation to address public health issues in the developing world...