Word: toning
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Things started off well enough, with a 12-2 win over B.C. and a 19-4 destruction of Penn. But then the Crimson lost to Princeton--for the third year in a row--and the tone of the season was set, with a couple wins always being sandwiched by losses...
Elizabeth M. Haynes '95-'96, who transferredfrom Georgetown her sophomore year, says Harvardsets an important tone with shopping period...
...faced many protests by pro-life members of his party. At Friday's speech, members of two official student organizations, the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life, attempted to display banners expressing their opposition to Specter's views. These banners were not offensive in tone; they read "Lincoln's Party Will Never Abandon the Unborn" and "America Votes Pro-Life '94-'96." They were hung silently and without disruption in front of the protesters' own seats. They were hung in such a way that not a single audience members' view would be obstructed...
...pair of opening losses forced the Crimson into the consolation bracket, and things didn't get too much easier. A 14-1 loss to UCLA and a 12-6 downing by Michigan set the tone for Saturday, which left Harvard with one last game against Maryland...
...involving 187 students conducted by communication professor Glenn Sparks of Purdue University found that exposure to such programs heightened belief in the paranormal. And when that exposure is constant, says University of Oregon psychologist Ray Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech age. "If you are awash in lost continents and channeling and ufos," says astronomer Carl...