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...throws, Harvard suffers an obvious loss in last year’s co-captains of John Kraay and Chris Clever, who scored at Heps last year in the shot put and weight throw, respectively. Senior David Grimm and sophomore Adam Geraldi will have to carry the load among returning athletes...
...what markets do. And Enron, once No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500, will file for bankruptcy, sell off its assets, and very likely disappear, having found (like derivatives-slinger Long-Term Capital Investment of yesteryear) that in the high-wire life of trading for profits, too much leverage, too-clever accounting and a few bad breaks can be a lethal combination...
...atmosphere on campus could progress until we developed a culture of the game Assassin, only for real! Why bother knocking off your House comrades when you can go after that annoying sniveler who’s right above you in the rankings? Extra points for orchestrating a particularly clever demise. Arsenic in General Wong’s? A quick push down the Science Center stairs? Harvard would be helping us hone that killer instinct...
...Wall kept China's marauders at bay, at least for a while, but all the weaponry America brought to bear on the Vietnamese--from napalm to the B-52s--couldn't win their hearts and minds. In our present war, we will rely more than ever on technology: the clever missiles that target a terrorist leader; the vaccines that protect against biological weapons; the lines of code that render a computer impervious to cyberterrorists. As the public debates whether it's safe to fly again, high-tech innovations promise to do everything from positively identifying passengers at the gate...
...American ophthalmologist in 1936; by the late 1980s, two Boston eye doctors gave it a shot, enlisting the help of Daugman, then a newly minted Harvard Ph.D. "At first I told them I wasn't interested," he recalls. "I told them to go and get one of those clever kids from M.I.T." But as Daugman thought about the task, he became intrigued...