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Harvard plays non-league contests against Northeastern and at Boston College in the next two Wednesdays, and an Ivy matchup against Yale at Jordan Field on Saturday, before the showdown against the Tigers the following weekend. The Crimson will have to avoid looking past any opponent and maintain its improved play in order to make a serious run at the Ivy crown...
...twice as likely as others to choose mifepristone because they considered it safer; white women were twice as likely to use it as nonwhites because they considered it more natural. More educated women chose it because they wanted to show support for broader choices and because they wanted to avoid surgery. Nearly all the women in the study found the drug highly acceptable and would recommend it to others...
...trying to invest around the weak euro, avoid companies with extensive operations abroad. Those tend to be consumer-product giants like Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble, typically thought to be defensive investments. Tech stocks fall into the same trap. Even those without European operations aim to benefit from business there. Your salvation may be in oil, natural gas and electric utilities. Although they've run up, these stocks look best from a risk-reward point of view...
...reducing it to just a few times a year [MEDICINE, Sept. 11]. The menstrual cycle is not a curse, as many women refer to it in jest, but a blessing that enables us, if we choose, to create life. What does it say about us if we wish to avoid one of the defining characteristics of our sex? How out of touch we have become if we begin to think of this natural experience as a burden. KAILIN M. FENN Millis, Mass...
...nearly unnoticed. By the end it had emerged as the festival's biggest surprise, and its heretofore unknown star, Colin Farrell, 24, had critics using words like "James Dean" to describe his performance as Bozz, a rebellious Texan recruit who helps his boot-camp buddies in Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell had no trouble trading his Irish accent for Bozz's Texas drawl, but he's finding it hard to keep his briny tongue in check now that the press is paying attention...