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...third year in a row.But for Radcliffe, the defeat does not hurt its confidence, as it is a step in the training toward the team’s final goal: success in two weeks at Eastern Sprints.“We’ve spent the entire spring focusing on [Eastern Sprints],” captain Lesley Burkett said. “We’ve been taking it one weekend at a time until May 13.”And with two weeks off before this championship, the team will be able to train harder this week to find...
...help increase the flow of information, Walser spent nine months researching each Cambridge school. In 1997, she published her findings in a 192-page book called “The Parents’ Guide to Cambridge Schools.” She also pushed the schools committee to hire a public information officer to develop a comprehensive collection of school Web sites, just a click away from curious parents’ computers...
...their final meets before the Heptagonal Championships at Princeton next weekend, the Harvard track and field teams proved up to the task in two states.Several competitors headed to Philadelphia for the fabled Penn Relays, while the rest of the team spent the weekend at UMass.PENN RELAYSAt the 113th Penn Relays, freshman Eda Karesin led Harvard on Thursday with a second-place finish in the college women’s javelin on the strength of a personal-best throw of 44.75 meters.The throw was also the second-best in Crimson history, qualifying Karesin for NCAA regionals.Teammate and senior co-captain Julia...
...commitment to environmental philanthropy, particularly for her funding of these causes in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. Undoubtedly, many of the individuals discussed in “This Moment on Earth” are ones she has supported through her numerous foundations. In contrast, the Senator, who has spent 22 years in Washington, provides virtually none of the insights he has gained or the sorts of policy proposals he and his colleagues are considering. Where is the nuanced discussion of climate change regulatory schemes, such whether carbon taxes are better than cap-and-trade systems and fuel economy standards? Where...
...Today's nuclear threat comes from "rogue" states such as Iran and North Korea that Washington claims may not be deterrable by the Cold War calculus of mutually assured destruction. That's why the U.S. is continuing to work on the missile shield system on which it has already spent about $100 billion. And U.S. officials can't figure out why, given Russia's proximity to Iran and Washington's willingness to actually share the technology with Moscow, the Kremlin keeps saying "Nyet...