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Harvard women’s tennis expected the beginning of the season to be tough, but nobody knew it would be this tough. Over the long weekend, the Crimson (0-5) lost to the No. 53 Virginia Cavaliers (4-3), 5-2, and the No. 16 William & Mary Tribe (8-3), 7-0, falling into a five-match skid. Four of the five losses have come at the hands of ranked opponents. “We’ve got the toughest schedule of any of the other Ivy League schools,” junior Laura Peterzan said...
...hall stage. Many others were shot or injured, including Peterson, who survived the rampage. It had been a week full of shootings on a number of high school campuses but the deadly six-minute long incident at NIU was by far the most reminiscent of last year's horrendous Virginia Tech massacre where a lone gunman killed 32 people before committing suicide...
...there security lessons to be learned? The suddenness of the attack meant there was little time for campus authorities to interdict Kazmierczak. So the lessons may be fuzzy at most. One piece of college folklore, however, may no longer apply. After last spring's Virginia Tech shootings, students in many schools figured it'd be safer to sit in the back of the class because of the belief that most of those killed in that rampage had been at the front of their classes. No more...
...from which it springs should not be denied. We can only hope that she learns to rectify the struggle that feeds her art without somehow letting the art excuse or enable her personal maelstrom. Regardless of whatever challenges she faces, she's a modern great, period. K. Wilson, Hampton, Virginia...
...excoriates modern America as a societal landscape of spoiled heritage and unrealized potential, populated by Americans who are as ignorant and poorly educated about science as religion. Jacoby condemns unsparingly—objects of her criticism include Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Katie Couric, and Virginia Woolf—but pins the greater part of blame for society’s anti-intellectualism on religious fundamentalism, media packaging, pseudoscience, and exploitative political pandering. The book’s argument is intriguing and, given this year’s presidential race, especially well-timed. The focus...