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...contest, but the Golden Bears quickly asserted themselves, pulling ahead in the second 250. Cal and the Huskies eventually separated from the rest of the competition in the third 500, with the Golden Bears’ final time of 5:23.897 missing a course record by just one-fifth of a second. Harvard crossed the line 7.2 seconds behind Cornell in a time...
...second year in a row, Boston remained the post-graduate destination of choice for Harvard seniors, with 24.4 percent of the class citing it as their home-to-be, but New York rated a very close second, drawing 24.3 percent of seniors, after falling last year to just one-fifth of the class. A tenth of the class will be heading to California, and a little over 5 percent will take up residence in Washington...
Three-quarters of the Class of 2010 reported drinking alcohol once a week or more. Under 5 percent said they never drank, while about one-fifth said they drank but less often than once a week...
...second varsity kept things close with its Bulldog counterparts the entire race, finishing just one-fifth of a second behind Yale at 6:20.4. The outcome of the race was ultimately decided in the last 500 meters, as the Bulldogs finished especially strong to take...
...most significant government setback in the undeclared war between the two Indias. The Maoists thrive in the "other" India - the one that is impoverished and left behind as one-fifth of the country's populace has begun to thrive, while the other 800 million suffer with growing resentment from chronic poverty and live without electricity, roads, hospitals, proper sanitation or clean water - the classic breeding ground for left-wing extremist violence. As Mao himself prescribed in 1927, "It's necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror in every rural area ... To right a wrong it is necessary...