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...HARVARD 18, CONN COLLEGE 4The Crimson played an early morning match against the Camels (4-7, 3-6), and proceeded to get the job done without a spectacular performance. Harvard started off the game with low intensity, though it picked up throughout the game. Barton-Kettleborough had a big showing, finding the back of the net four times as the Crimson cruised to an easy victory. The hosts never posed much of a threat, which lulled Harvard into a lackluster pace, but the Crimson managed to post a strong offensive output and attone for Saturday’s defeats.BROWN...
While early jitters hurt its performance and kept Harvard from reaching the finals, the Crimson got another shot to show what it could do in the “challenger’s cup.” Demonstrating its newfound perspective, Harvard nailed its routine the second time around, scoring 9.8 out of 11 in the pyramid section...
...true blue-collars would argue that dog and pony shows build support for their objectives. But sometimes their rhetoric seems more concerned with showing their good intentions than with showing results. A recent SLAM e-mail rallied students to “Save Harvard Jobs” by playing on their consciences: “It’s time to show that our support goes beyond high-fives in the corridors or chats by the security desk.” Instead of convincing students that layoffs were bad policy, SLAM insinuated that, if students did not oppose job cuts...
...This latest campaign is part of a larger trend among campus activists: Since they can’t enact the change they desire, they might as well show that they are good, moral people. Many student activists are sincere in their efforts and accept that they’re promoting lost causes. But, besides being futile, this approach can harm the very causes that students support...
...have more control over the situation than previously thought? Contemporary historian Manfred Wilke doesn't think so. "This is just more proof how advanced the inner disintegration of the SED already was at that point," he says. "The SED wanted to ease the pressure and show that it was serious about the reforms it had promised." The GDR government at that point was already under enormous pressure not only from inside of the country, where cries to lift travel restriction were becoming louder and louder, but also from Czechoslovakia, which was struggling to cope with the mass exodus of East...