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...over the United States’ stronghold on university education. “[THES] gives a great vote of confidence to American higher education,” she said, though she added that “it would be a mistake not to recognize other universities abroad. The rising tide of education around the world has lifted many boats.” Ince attributed America’s strong presence to it healthy economy and national emphasis on education. He also cited alumni networks at U.S. schools as a major factor. “Harvard already enjoys very good name...
...Wilson scored her first a minute later, Robert Morris regained its composure and managed to put up a fight for the rest of the period as Harvard saddled itself with a number of penalties. When the Crimson killed a five-on-three disadvantage late in the opening frame, the tide began to turn again. The Colonials found the box often in the second period and an almost immediate five-on-three power play for Harvard led to another goal. The Crimson finished the game two-for-seven on the powerplay with 16 shots.From then on, the game seemed decided...
Some wonder if the backbiting tide won't recede as blogs grow up. The trend now is for more prominent sites to be commercialized. A Manhattan entrepreneur named Nick Denton runs a small stable of bloggers as a business by selling advertising on their sites. So far they aren't showing detectible signs of editorial corruption by their corporate masters--two of Denton's blogs, gawker.com and wonkette.com are among the most corrosively witty sites on the Web--but they've lost their amateur status forever...
Many thanks for your recent op-ed (“Stemming the Tide,” Oct. 13), with its bracingly dire portrait of Harvard’s plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary...
...ownership allowed him more control over what shows his company would put on stage. The combination of these factors inspired and challenged Shakespeare, and spurred his writing to be better than it had ever been. Shapiro’s opus comes at a high-water mark for the continuous tide of Shakespeare scholarship. Last year, Stephen J. Greenblatt, who holds the Cogan university chair in the humanities at Harvard, penned “Will in the World,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist. While Greenblatt offers a sweeping portrait of the Bard’s life, Shapiro focuses...