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Still, not even the best of defenses could have helped the Crimson if it didn’t start scoring more goals. Kerr took steps to combat the offensive dry spell that victimized the Crimson in 2000, when Harvard had just 19 tallies in 17 games. Beginning in the spring of 2001, the team started practicing with a new 4-3-3 alignment that added an extra player up front. Athletic sophomore Ladd Fritz, the team’s top returning scorer, was moved from midfielder to forward...
...Faculty waited for the EPC to review the departmental reports submitted in February and to formulate legislation to combat grade inflation, the Faculty began to shift their attention to the awarding of honors...
...report’s authors argued that the public’s perception of obesity and its causes translates into less government action to combat the problem. But they found that Americans hold contradictory attitudes that have competing influences on government policy...
Summers tried to combat the perception that he is not sufficiently pro-diversity by releasing a statement on diversity and reiterating his commitment to the Afro-American Studies department. But the departures of West and Appiah for Princeton have weakened the department—and though Gates says he will stay for another year, he has not made his final decision. However, even more damaging to Summers’ credentials on diversity has been his refusal to endorse an ethnic studies department in the face of increasing student pressure...
...successfully attacking HIV at two points in its lifecycle simply with siRNA—before and after it enters a healthy cell—the researchers said they hope injecting siRNA could become an effective procedure to combat many different pathogens...