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...excited about going to NCAAs with three guys in the top ten.”HARVARD 32, PRINCETON 9The Crimson dominated its slate of bouts against the Tigers (2-13, 1-5), dropping only one of the seven contests. Harvard transitioned quickly from Philadelphia to Princeton, N.J., showing vast improvement at Dillon Gymnasium in the afternoon. O’Connor (21-2) and Caputo (21-4) logged shutouts to cap undefeated days, while Peppelman (9-7) and Knapp (4-6) ground out impressive victories to put the match out of reach.Perhaps the most thrilling efforts, though, came from two grapplers...
...wonderful-to-touch paper. An old saw in the technology business is that any new tech must be 10 times as good as the thing it seeks to displace. Most people would agree that the automobile was exponentially better than the horse, just as the personal computer was a vast improvement over the typewriter. The change didn't happen overnight; it took time for both the auto and the PC to be easy enough to use and cheap enough to buy before they were adopted by the mass market. E?readers must exponentially improve on the experience of reading...
...mangroves on the western end through the fierce currents of the Brahmaputra River in the north to the thick jungles of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on the eastern side, all of which serve as natural barriers. At its most developed, the border looks like Petrapole, the channel for the vast majority of legal migration and one of the largest land crossings in Asia. More than 1,000 people pass through every day, most by bus and some on foot, along with about 400 commercial trucks. They walk through a metal gate several meters wide, accompanied by a bizarre...
There's some argument for that. An old joke in Islamabad: All countries have armies, but in Pakistan, the army has a country. Indeed, military dictators have ruled Pakistan for much of its 61-year history, and the armed forces control vast swaths of the economy...
...liberal arts school and develop something to say.” BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITYWhile Harvard’s liberal arts education may provide the intellectual rudiments helpful for aspiring filmmakers, it predictably has far fewer alumni in Hollywood than film schools. Wilson estimated that the vast majority of USC’s graduates are concentrated in Southern California. “People talk of the ‘USC mafia.’ We like to think of it more as a family,” said Wilson. “If you look at a lot of projects...