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...resource of its great past in two ways—to uphold the values that should always exist here, or to nourish the forces of reaction and conservatism that have sometimes triumphed. In the early winter, when President Bok decided that Harvard would not enter as a commercial competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed to some time-honored precepts. Learning should be an end in itself, not a way to earn vast fortunes. Teachers should be teaching, searching, thinking, and not competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full...
...Admissions Test. “We stayed up all night and ate pizza, and I slept on her couch that night,” Rekas says. “Shirin’s absence leaves me with a huge hole in my heart.” A frequent triathlon competitor, Rekas vows to dedicate her Ironman performance this July to Shakir, saying that she “will celebrate her life and her memory” during the race. Shakir is the second Harvard student to die in an accident in Peru in recent years. In June 2001, Haley...
...share of the Moriarty Award as the top point-scorer at EISLs. At NCAAs, the senior earned a fourth-place finish in the 200 backstroke, breaking the EISL record with a time of 1:41.83. “Dave just swam lights out,” said fellow NCAA competitor Geoff Rathgeber. “It was nice to see an Ivy swimmer up there with national champions and some Olympians.” In addition to setting various records throughout the season, Cromwell managed to keep his life balanced. The senior was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic...
Energizer and Duracell, having witnessed the inroads a determined Japanese competitor like Fuji could make in film--in retail channels similar to batteries--are on guard. Duracell is promoting the same Oxyride technology in its newly released, higher-priced PowerPix-brand batteries, which, ironically, it acquired from Panasonic in a hush-hush licensing agreement that neither company will comment...
When those paddlers get serious, they come to Arin Chang, who makes high-end carbon-fiber paddles designed specifically for dragon boats. A former engineer for a mountain-bike company, Chang got involved with dragon boats in 1999 and quickly became an lite competitor, traveling to events in Europe, Australia and Canada. He soon realized that boaters were slowed by traditional wooden paddles, and he designed a lighter, stiffer version that he started selling in 2000 under the brand Burnwater...