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Beating Yale 86-77 and Princeton 119-44, the Crimson left little doubt as to who is number one. Even more impressive is that for Harvard, the victory was a mere stepping stone for loftier goals such as Easterns and NCAAs. HARVARD 86 YALE 77 HARVARD 119 PRINCETON...
...first-year students opt for advanced standing, many departments require them to take tutorials this spring. While advanced standing allows students to graduate early or take time off, it also means choosing a concentration after a mere semester...
...parried with a study by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick predicting that the resulting torrent of suits would pump up premiums as much as 8.6%--a claim that lost some currency when, in a similar study, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that costs would rise only 1.2%, a mere $7 per covered employee per year. House Republicans, led by Dennis Hastert of Illinois, now Speaker, opposed the plan largely on financial grounds, and Norwood's proposal languished. On the state level, intense industry lobbying torpedoed one reform plan after another...
Huidekoper goes further, defining Harvard more broadly than a mere school...
...after years of resisting its charms, it really was for keeps. Though the young Hungarian arrived in Paris in 1924 ambitious to be a painter, he spent his first years working as a journalist. Eventually he started taking pictures to accompany his articles. It was his initial embarrassment at mere picture taking that led him to publish his photos under a pseudonym, Brassai, a Hungarian word meaning "from Brasso," his childhood village. He wanted to save his birth name, Gyula Halasz, for the paintings that he expected would secure his fame. In the end his paintings would...