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...Irvine plying his craft. When it finished, Irvine took the stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about the luxurious perks of playing big in Nevada. To give...
...percent annual return. Anthony J. Genello ’08, the president of the Harvard Financial Analysts Club (HFAC), described Lynch as an inspiration to students learning about finance and investing. “Mr. Lynch is to investors representative of the idea that it is possible to beat the market,” he said. “Being so successful, all Harvard student investors look up to him. Most of the financial education we get is through student investing groups, and as limited as that is we still feel we can do very well by applying his techniques...
...drop. In my personal game, I have to work on shooting percentage.”Ultimately, this long-awaited win put the wind back in the team’s sails as they head to Yale next week still searching for an Ivy victory.“They beat us last year and we’d like to get that one,” La Fiura said. “Obviously, it’s Harvard-Yale.”A final game against Dartmouth will cap the season.“Our biggest loss is going...
...Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “The women did a great job with their win, and the men took good steps to close the gap with Yale.”The win for the women completes a sweep of Yale this year—the Crimson women beat the Bulldogs in the fall cross country season and the winter indoor season—and Saturday’s win came in large part from sweeps in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the 100-meter hurdles, and the javelin.Dara Wilson’s 14.39 time...
...five-seat Anton Wintner said. “We have so many guys on the team that are incredibly talented and even close together in their abilities so that any number of guys could be in any number of boats.”Harvard’s freshman eight beat Princeton by open water, while the Crimson’s fourth varsity entry defeated Princeton’s third varsity by almost 10 seconds.Next weekend, the Harvard heavyweights will travel to Philadelphia to take on Penn and Navy in the annual Adams Cup races. The Crimson will look to retain...