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...there is another scenario that is less promising. That one predicts that when people lose connections to their old neighborhoods, they also lose something good. They lose reasons to do the right thing. "One of the things that keeps people straight is the fact that there are people who are important to them around. They don't want to embarrass themselves," says Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon. "As you disperse people into unfamiliar environments, without these people they care about, there is less control over them, and they could become more troublesome...
...relieved to know that it's possible to have a nonawkward conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld. In fact, she answers the door of her sunny apartment in downtown Philadelphia with actual aplomb. Sittenfeld has a dramatically curvy nose, dark straight hair and a loud, appealing laugh. Seriocomic misunderstandings are kept to a minimum as we tour the study where she writes her novels; it's airy and messy--she and her boyfriend moved in last August, but there are still boxes on the floor. So far, you would never know that you were visiting the home of the Faulkner of awkwardness...
Eastern Sprints will be a test.For the Radcliffe lightweights, it will be a challenge to reassert its lost number one ranking.And for the heavyweights, Sunday will determine if the team’s streak of eight straight NCAA championship births continues.Both squads simply hope they can pass.Over the past eight seasons, the Radcliffe heavyweights have received a bid to the NCAA Championships—to which only 12 teams are invited annually—an unprecedented modern run. This year, however, the streak is in jeopardy, as the heavyweights have lost four straight regattas and post a No. 18 ranking...
...NCAA [tournament] is all about experience,” Anderson said. “We played a strong schedule all year, so this is just another challenge.”Harvard hopes that this strong schedule will help counter the fact that the Orange is making its 24th straight tournament appearance—the Orangemen are have won eight titles overall, the last championship coming just two years ago.“That’s the Mecca of lacrosse, at least north of the Mason-Dixon line,” senior attackman Steve Cohen said. “That?...
...Harvard brand, which they otherwise might not have had access to.For the class of 2010, the admissions rate at the College was 9.3 percent. The extension school has an open admission policy and students meeting certain criteria can enroll in degree programs.Shortill is aware of the critics. Cutting straight to the heart of their insinuations she says, “there is this fear that we are somehow pretenders.”Shortill says she has no problem separating the college from the extension school. “We are a part of Harvard, but we are not the same...