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When they do show up, even for losses, Yale’s fans have witnessed the uncommon this season. It has been three months since the tragic car accident on I-95 involving nine Yale athletes took the lives of four young men: junior Sean Fenton and sophomores Andrew Dwyer, Kyle Burnat and Nicholas Grass. Burnat and Grass were members of the Yale baseball team, and every game the Bulldogs play, they play for them...
...typically use the story ideas readers suggest to her in their letters, she admits to using combinations of their names to name some of the characters in her book. “I don’t usually want the names of the minor characters to be too uncommon,” she says, “so I usually steal names from the kids who write to me—not someone’s whole name but I’ll take the first part of a name from one letter and the last from another...
While Cserny’s so-called extra step is legal, it is also uncommon in women’s basketball, so traveling calls sometimes result from her unusual style. The quite center particularly struggled with them while adjusting to Harvard’s style of play early in her rookie season...
...that involved taking on an already authorized rival treatment by Biogen in a head-to-head clinical trial--and winning. Biogen had enjoyed a temporary monopoly in the U.S. for its Avonex product under the FDA's "orphan drug" program, meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases. Serono broke the monopoly, proving by trial that its drug was more effective. Bertarelli's priority today is to fill Serono's pipeline with new drugs so it isn't so dependent on a few products. To leverage and expand its MS expertise, Serono is partnering with other firms to create...
While Harvard students tend to steer clear of overtly racist remarks, it is not uncommon to hear jokes rich in perpetration of Asian-American stereotypes. These usually revolve around the notion that Asian students are bookish and nerdy, to the extent that they don’t enjoy or understand non-academic activities, especially sports. I should know these jokes, because I am definitely guilty of making them, and so are Asian students themselves...