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...built a mathematical model of economic and social organization--creating the foundations of modern game theory--by studying strategy games like poker. Poker is like life, the argument goes, a battlefield where the players constantly try to assess risks and guess one another's next moves. More recently, Anthony Cabot, a leading gaming-law attorney who represents online and casino operators, co-authored a paper for the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review linking poker to other games in history, like jousting, that have motivated young men to increase their combat skills. He wrote that even Islam, which prohibits gambling...
Garrett D. Nelson ‘09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House...
...topics explored in his book. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel will also spend a good portion of his sabbatical at the keyboard. Sandel will pen two books—one related to the themes presented in his course on ethics and biotechnology, which he taught with Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas Melton, and another on markets and morals. “The book tries to argue for the moral limits of markets in certain spheres of life,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Examples range from organs for transplantation...
Foreign Cultures is a requirement? Henry Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad...
...note about the difficulty of orgo: half the challenge is the problem sets and three midterms. The other half is the relentless competitiveness of certain pre-meds, against whom the class is curved. But, do take heed: it is possible to do well without taking up permanent residence in Cabot Library, and you can still get in to medical school if you score below the mean...