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...When Harvard was on the power play, Vaillancourt would set up near the blueline, where she would wait with uncanny patience and laser a pass through traffic to an open teammate that only someone with her vision could...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: Voters Make Perfect Choice | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...Insiders agree that the colleges cannot by themselves make the necessary changes. In “Our Underachieving Colleges,” former Harvard President Derek Bok has written that “it would be myopic simply to wait in the hope that reform will emerge spontaneously from within.” But engaged alumni, trustees and parents can make change happen. They have more power and influence than they realize...

Author: By Robert L. Freedman | Title: Improving Higher Education | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...traffic that morning was horrendous, and with an estimated 9,000-plus Austin-area delegates eager to line up for their convention credentials, party officials had to extend the sign-in time until almost noon. Worried they would not make the deadline, many delegates decided not to wait in a two-mile traffic jam and simply parked their cars along the side of the road and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for Every Texas Delegate | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...piece of red cloth near the roots of the mangroves," he said, where the ibis feeds on crabs, from whose shells they get the carotenes that turn their feathers scarlet. "They think they see their friend down there and they follow," explains Seth, who would have been lying in wait with a shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Menu: A National Treasure | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...attracted to the higher pay and prestige of the major leagues and eager to be free of the rigid Japanese style discipline and the excessive practice of the Japanese system. As expatriate American pitcher Jeremy Powell, who plays for the Softbank Hawks, puts it, "These guys can't wait to get to the States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball in Japan: Not All Cheers | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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