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Harvard (36-12, 16-4 Ivy), which entered the double-elimination Regional as the five seed, had split its previous two games, a 16-1 shellacking at the hands of No. 8 and second-seeded Cal State-Fullerton (47-17, 25-5 Big West) and a 6-5 extra-inning win over sixth-seeded Nicholls State (28-34, 13-11 Southland...
This Wednesday, in its four-part investigation of Harvard University's split identity as both an institution of higher learning and a money-sucking behemoth, The Boston Globe will attempt to answer the question: "Is it worth it?" I hope the Globe, if only to spare our collective sanity, won't be so cruel as to tell the members of my class, just 24 hours before our graduation, that no, indeed, it is not worth...
...instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental and vicious." The vast, threatened "middle ground" is proud of the Pope but ignorant of his writings...
...halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done." Habibie did craftily avoid making a move against his military bête noire, Defense Minister General Wiranto. "If he fired Wiranto now," McCarthy points out, "he would have split the military...
Kamen came to the world of computers reluctantly at first. She had been writing her nutrition books on a typewriter when her husband came home one day in 1982 with a new IBM PC. The first time Kamen tried writing on it, she split a paragraph on the screen and panicked. "I couldn't figure out how to put it together again. The manuals were written by techies, and they were awful." Within two weeks, she was in love. When Kamen and her husband moved from New York City to Novato, Calif., several years ago, she would allow...