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...brightest of a solid season for Hewlett, who was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and National Defensive Player of the Week by both College Sporting News and The Sports Network for his efforts. Hewlett is fourth on the team in tackles and has added two sacks and a forced fumble to his three interceptions...
...Honestly, who really believes we shouldn’t have input in College legislative decisions that affect us? Do administrators really know us better than we know ourselves? We’re selected because Harvard believes we are the best and the brightest. In fact, we’re trusted, and almost expected, by this College to become leaders in the future. Preventing us from attending “closed door” sessions only stifles learning and breeds discontent, hurting both the students and the administration in the process...
...became the subject of my second book, The Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought lives abroad. The only real constant was the junta, which had seized power in 1962 and run a promising nation into the ground...
...Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) will challenge the society’s Yale chapter in a poker tournament. Founded by Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, GPSTS aims to “create an open online curriculum centered on poker that will draw the brightest minds together,” according to the group’s online statement. The GPSTS currently has chapters organized at Stanford, UCLA, and Brown, in addition to Harvard and Yale. Nesson and third-year law student Andrew M. Woods, the interim president of the HLS chapter, said that...
...always, there are huge differences in achievement from state to state. Massachusetts is the brightest light. Not only does it have the highest average math and reading scores overall, it also has the highest percentages of students achieving at an "advanced" level and the fewest at a level below "basic". (NAEP scores fall into four categories: Advanced, Proficient, Basic, Below Basic...