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...saber finals, fellow junior David Jackus jumped an impressive five places from the preliminaries to end the tournament with a 12th-place finish, matching his result from the 2004 NCAA competition. In the men’s foil, sophomore Enoch Woodhouse—Harvard’s sole competitor in the event—finished in 19th-place. Woodhouse finished fifth in the foil event at last year’s NCAA meet. Junior Julian Rose and freshman Benjamin Ungar finished back-to-back in the men’s epée finals, placing sixth and seventh respectively...
Stinetorf, the Crimson’s other representative in the foil finals finished the finals with a 17th-place showing, adding to her 11th and 12th place finishes...
...Bassi was not about to be shown up and registered two great record-breaking performances of her own. In day three of competition, Bassi swam in her best event, the 200-yard butterfly. She finished in 12th place in the preliminaries with a time of 1:59.32 for a new school record...
...Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, sent a memorandum to some colleagues on December 12th,” the short, straightforward write-up said. “The Economist has a copy. Some of the memo has caused a fuss within the Bank...
...Much of Nebenzahl's commentary on the maps focuses on the complex networks of patronage and scholarly collaboration that led to their creation. Inevitably, the maps sometimes flatter the rulers for whom they were drawn. The 12th century Moroccan nobleman Al-Idrisi, for example, produced a world map for Roger II of Sicily that swelled his kingdom so that it was approximately half the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet Al-Idrisi also achieved a new level of accuracy by integrating the knowledge of Muslim mariners with that of Christian scholars, so that Asia was at last separated from Africa...