Word: throwings
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...anything but alone in her frustration with how traditional nonprofits are run. Too many charities cling to an outmoded mission statement, are slow to give volunteers assignments that excite them and perhaps shun older helpers. After enough vexation, "people throw up their hands and just say they'll start their own," says Marc Freedman, founder of Civic Ventures, which helps retirees find rewarding work and volunteer opportunities...
...released widely, there have been dozens of screenings of the film all across the country, including many in Kansas just before the state school board’s Feb. 13 decision to strike intelligent design from its state education standards, which led some pundits to throw part of the credit to “Flock of Dodos.” Showtime network also plans to air the documentary in May, suggesting that the scientific community may have found its voice at last.No matter the flaws of the intelligent design argument, human beings like simple answers, and the established scientific community...
This is probably the Crimson’s best remaining chance for a win this season. With some better free-throw shooting at Princeton, Harvard would likely have won that game. Now it goes against a Tiger team that may be without one of its top players, forward Kyle Koncz, who has battled a foot injury recently. Koncz has trouble playing on the second night of back-to-back games, though that didn’t prevent him from playing in that situation last week. If the Crimson can get offense from someone besides Drew Housman, it has a very...
Meet Nathanael G. Mason. His clipped British accent may throw you for a loop. No, he’s not a redcoat who eschewed the Oxbridge system for a Harvard education. He’s actually French—from Annecy, a small town in the Alps near Geneva. And he’s one of the two students from L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (dubbed Sciences Po) on campus this semester. But Mason isn’t your average visiting student. He’s an exchange student. And the difference...
...meter leap. Sophomore Becky Christensen came in second in the high jump after leaping 1.73 meters, while junior Clara Blattler tied for second in the pole vault with classmate Sally Stanton, with each clearing a height of 3.65 meters. Junior Molly Boyle was third in the weight throw with a 15.63-meter throw. Freshman Kathryn Orchowski was fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 58.94 seconds, with sophomore Aishlinn O’Callaghan just behind her in fifth at 59.09 seconds. Sophomore Jan Ng was fifth in the 800 meters, finishing in 2:15.30. The men were...