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...Radcliffe varsity four had the best finish out of all of the heavyweight boats getting second in its heat and fifth in a very close grand final. The four teams in the middle of the pack were distanced by a total of just over four seconds, but the Black and White finished more than 16 seconds ahead of sixth-place Boston University...
...love my parents, I love the way they raised me, even though they pushed that doctor thing. I understand they really just want the best for their children, and to them a doctor is the best you can be. If they hadn’t pushed me, I wouldn’t be here,” she says. “But if I took Women and Gender Studies, my parents would demolish me,” she adds with a laugh...
...smile when I remember how my best friend and I recently ate crepes at La Creperie like we did during a first-year study break, because I found my own way of memorializing my Harvard years. Although I won't be able to withstand the pressure of Senior Week reminder emails completely, at least I’ll know I have valuable alternatives to remembering my time here...
...preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential. “Embracing uncertainty” and abandoning mathematical models, while assuming that human behavior isn’t even “remotely predictable” is wrong-headed...
Fresh from a post in the White House, Kagan brought intensity along with her proposals to remake a Law School tired of being second best to perennial rival Yale Law and criticized for a lack of concern for its student body...