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Harvard was the preseason favorite to win the Ivy title not just because it returned the vast majority of its scoring talent from last year’s second-place team, but also because of the sense of desparation from its seniors. And on that strength, the Crimson lived up to its expectations, winning the league title by a school record-breaking margin in the standings and outdistancing nearest competitors Cornell and Penn by five games with a 13-1 league record...
Researchers from across the globe will be able to access the vast biochemical library and get information on every aspect of cell biology. Information on everything from obesity genes to cancer proteins will be available for scientists to use in their own experiments...
...belong to the Republican Club this year, and 300 students paid dues to the Harvard College Democrats, according to group officers. Merely 500 students assumed a party label via formal membership in a campus club. Only this seven percent of the undergraduate population was willing to address the vast range of issues that go along with those party labels beyond the “hot three...
...Irish politician Charles Haughey - nicknamed by his people the Boss. Formerly the leader of the Fianna Fáil party and Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Haughey saw his career collapse amid a series of allegations, both extramarital and economic (he was accused of illicitly amassing a vast fortune while publicly advocating belt-tightening). In 1970 he was even accused, though acquitted, of gun-running...
...says Catalans have had an uneasy relationship with the man they are now celebrating. "I think Barcelona has finally decided to have an entente cordiale with him," says Giralt-Miracle, who is director of the Gaudí Space, an area dedicated to the architect's works located in the vast attic of one of the best-known of them, the Casa Milà, in Barcelona's elegant Passeig de Gràcia. An example of this relationship is that Catalans unflatteringly dubbed the Casa Milà La Pedrera "the quarry," for its stone...