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...chant our “yays” or “nays” on certain sensitive issues, and define ourselves by those simple opinions. But I think that as a community of students, each as vulnerable and thoughtful as the next, that’s a trend we ought to eschew. Alexandra N. Atiya ’06, a Crimson news editor, is a history concentrator in Leverett House...
...death. But a recent Harvard study suggests that African-Americans do not experience this well-known “widowhood effect.” The study, conducted by Felix V. Elwert, a doctoral candidate in sociology, and Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, looked at trends among 400,000 married couples over the age of 67. The researchers found that white men are 18 percent more likely to die following the death of a wife, and that widowed white women are 16 percent more likely to die than their still-married counterparts. By contrast, no widowhood...
...kill. “We were really able to control the net,” Ridolfi said, “and a big part of the men’s game is controlling the net.” Perhaps most importantly, however, Harvard managed to reverse its recent trend of sloppy play at the ends of games. The last ten points of the second game proved the most exciting of the match by far, with the Crimson fighting off the pesky Engineers and a lively home crowd. As the home fans chanted, “Let?...
...past two years, the trend has been pretty consistent that the overall increase in salary has been right on par with inflation or slightly above,” said Gayle Kiser, CUPA-HR director of communications...
...Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, who studies labor economics, said that this trend is neither new nor surprising...