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...grab your three closest friends and see if you can manage the inventory of a firm in the market. According to the Web site, “Despite the simplicity of the simulation, most teams find it extremely difficult to keep inventory and stockout costs low.” Pshh, it’s just beer...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Business, Beer, and Board Games | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...only to drop it, 6-7. Chijoff-Evans then took the next set, 6-3, but couldn’t come up strong in the final set, 2-6. Junior Aba Omodele-Lucien took his opening set, 6-3, but was unfortunate to also drop a frame by the closest margin, 6-7. Things didn’t pick up for the third-year starter as he also lost the decisive set, 6-4. Freshman Joshua Tchan, the top performer from last weekend’s competition, was swept in the third spot, 6-4, 6-2, along with fellow...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Earns First Win, Drops Pair | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...closest Rhodes ever comes to capturing the Inferno's dark joys is a scene involving a flame-throwing circus performer with a malfunctioning suit. It's unclear how the flame thrower, who has some information on the stripper's car, relates to Dante's heretics in their flaming tombs, but he's got a broken zipper on his protective suit and a jammed fuel line that causes him to go up in flames every minute or so. And he's desperate for a cigarette. As a sight gag, it works, and the flaming man's relative optimism that such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saint John of Las Vegas: Steve Buscemi in the Inferno | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

Today you can travel the 250 miles from Paris to Lyon on the high-speed TGV in two hours. Covering a similar distance from Philadelphia to Boston takes some five hours, and that's on an Amtrak Acela train, the closest thing the U.S. has to high-speed rail. "Every other major industrialized nation has recognized that high-speed rail is key to economic growth and mobility," says Petra Todorovich, director of the America 2050 program at the Regional Planning Association. "It's time for America to realize that as well." (See the most important cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can High-Speed Rail Succeed in America? | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

None of Harvard’s starters scored in double digits, with Matera coming the closest in a nine-point effort...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock | Title: Freshmen Shine In Lopsided Road Loss | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

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