Word: adapt
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...that most of us are at a loss for overarching take-home messages. Perhaps, in this way, Harvard is a fitting introduction to the real world, which (I’m told) plays like anything but a conventional screenplay. In last year’s Spike Jonze film, Adaptation, Nicolas Cage plays a writer who is all too aware of this. In trying to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchard Thief into a screenplay, Cage desperately wishes to remain true to the original text rather than stuff the work into a typical Hollywood cliché-fest. When...
...Conversely, cities decayed because of internal and social strife, costly military campaigns to maintain trading empires or other commercial interests, protectionism, inability to adapt to changing economic conditions and intolerance toward minority groups, which encouraged merchant families or religious minorities to leave. And there has been another, frequently overlooked agent of urban decline: disease. For example, the Black Death, caused by the Pasteurella pestis, reappeared in Europe in 1346 when the port city of Kaffa was besieged by the Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague...
...regular season at an end, the sailors have nearly a month to prepare for Nationals, preparation that may require trips away from the Charles. Harvard owns, and uses, two kinds of boats—Larks and FJs. But Nationals will be raced in 420s, requiring the Crimson to adapt...
Fortunately, the medical community is starting to adapt to the new realities of women and heart disease. Two studies suggest that women may finally be benefiting as much as men from angioplasty, a procedure in which doctors use catheters and balloons to open up dangerously narrowed arteries and insert stents to keep the arteries open. In the past, catheters and stents were all made in one standard size--to fit men's larger arteries. As a result, women suffered more complications and a much higher risk of death from angioplasty. Also, until about three years ago doctors prescribed the same...
...mean to imply that pursuits like investment banking and consulting are unworthy; I simply mean to remind Kosman—and the Harvard community at large—that success is a broad term. Or, to adapt a phrase, success is found in the eye of the beholder. When we let others’ judgments of success determine our own happiness, we are almost guaranteed to feel as though there is always more ground to cover...