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Harvard's lackluster athletic performances can be attributed partially to the fact that it does not offer athletic scholarships. Students also try to uphold the "student-athlete" ideal...
Harvard's lackluster athletic performances can be attributed partially to the fact that it does not offer athletic scholarships. Students also try to uphold the "student-athlete" ideal...
Harvard's lackluster athletic performances can be attributed partially to the fact that it does not offer athletic scholarships, Students also try to uphold the "student-athlete" ideal...
...Burger, who originally sided with the majority in Roe, dissented and indicated that the time had come to "review" the controversial 1973 ruling. It was not entirely clear whether Burger would vote to throw out Roe or, more likely, just shade it at the margins to uphold some state laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The same uncertainty surrounds Justice O'Connor, who also dissented in Thornburgh but did not call for the outright reversal of Roe. Scalia, a strong Catholic, is believed to be a surer vote to overturn Roe and thereby return...
According to Scherwitz, six major research programs have failed to uphold the notion that Type-A behavior leads to increased heart risk. Scherwitz's own projects turned up evidence that some Type A's may be better off than many of the placid Type B's. A pioneer in the field, Ray Rosenman of the University of California, Berkeley, now says that Type-A behavior "may not necessarily be bad for any given individual at all." Other researchers reported that many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency...