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...both squads pushing the ball up the floor, the teams traded leads in the early going. When most of the Harvard starters took a much-needed rest just six minutes in, the bench opened up the game’s first big lead, taking a 21-14 advantage. Freshman Adam Demuyakor notched all of his six points in the first half...
...Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...centuries-old debate: how do some nations attain long-term economic growth and an ever higher standard of living while others don't? What determines whether people in your part of the planet live in McMansions, mobile homes or mud huts? In the 18th century, proto-economist Adam Smith pointed to the transformative effect of the division of labor. In the 19th, David Ricardo highlighted the benefits of trade. In the 20th, Harvard University's Michael Porter made the case for industry clusters. Geography, physical capital, technology, worker education--they've all taken a turn as the supposed silver bullet...
Rudy Giuliani knew right away that he wanted to hire William Bratton as police chief when the two first met in 1993. "When Giuliani was elected mayor, we had something like 2,200 murders that year," says Adam Walinsky, a law-enforcement expert who helped arrange that first meeting. "He went out to get a guy who was going to completely shake it up. He knew within the first half-hour of conversation that [Bratton...
...about 25 yards out and took a good first touch and shot it lower-left corner.” Fittingly, Hoff’s goal, his second of the season, was scored on Senior Day. Playing in their last regular-season game at Ohiri Field, Hoff and co-captain Adam Hahn, the only two seniors on this year’s squad, were honored before the start of the game. “Adam and Matt had great careers here at Harvard, and we wanted to make sure that they left on a good, high note,” Kerr...