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Narayanamurti, one of the longest serving deans at Harvard, oversaw the transition of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science into a school last fall, a move he and other University officials billed as a sign of Harvard's heightened commitment to the applied sciences...
...brought a new breed of director, steeped in movie lore and movie love, making smart films that were huge hits--and for the longest time, Oscar ignored them too. The Godfather won Best Picture, but its auteur, Francis Ford Coppola, was not named Best Director. (He won for The Godfather Part II.) Nor did the Academy give Spielberg an Oscar for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark or E.T. (He had to wait till 1994, when Schindler's List took Best Picture and Best Director.) Martin Scorsese, by general acclamation the most intense...
...Bantams have prevailed in 180 consecutive contests, the longest winning streak in NCAA history for any sport. Trinity hasn’t lost since 1998, taking nine straight national championships...
...Leah Sulyma’s 47-save performance brought back memories of Harvard’s triple-overtime loss to Boston College in the Beanpot’s opening round last year. In that epic game, Eagles goalie Molly Schaus, then a freshman herself, made 73 saves in the longest game in NCAA women’s hockey history...
...campaign began in 2006, it was fitting that election night came early, the anchors with their big screen maps, the countdown clocks and rolling tallies and vamping pundits as everyone waited for the polls to close and the answers to come, at the end of the beginning of the longest campaign ever. But unlike next November, when the maps and clocks will return, Super Tuesday has its own rules: for the candidates, coming in second actually counts for something, and beating your rival is not enough; you have to beat expectations as well...