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...Google has relied on an open Internet to make its entire business," he tells me. "It has a genetic predisposition for openness." That's partly because Google's core business, search, depends on openness. Google can't find the things you want on the Web - documents, music, images and so on-unless they are open and accessible, Kraus says. The richest Internet company on the Fortune 500 (it's ranked 150, with $16.5 billion in revenue), Google has a business plan that depends on the Web being used by as many people as possible. That's why the company spends...
...sounds astoundingly simple, but it’s taken me four years to realize that the attributes that form our core values at Harvard—perseverance, hard work, determination—are valuable only as means to an end, not as ends in themselves. And while I’m glad that Harvard has enabled me to apply these towards worthy causes, like Teach for America, or even in support of more personal projects, like my thesis, they are tools and nothing more. They are not a valid ideology; they are not a measure of success...
...rally around each other. It’s really going to help us next season.”Though the Crimson is losing three graduating seniors—opposite hitter Jamie Crooks, libero Brian Rapp, and outside hitter Jordan Weitzen—much of the Crimson’s core will be back again next year.Junior Brady Weissbourd slammed down an average of 3.78 kills per game and had a season hitting percentage of .439, while sophomore Erik Kuld paced the Crimson offense with 4.05 kills per game, the 19th-highest mark in the country. Weintraub...
...year older, wiser, and more experienced—is poised to contend for a league title. “Improving from [2006] was not difficult,” Rhodes said. “We’ve had this entire offseason and spring to train this core group, and you could see a big improvement that I’ve never seen in my time here.”“In this league, you make runs every once in a while when you have a good team returning and they know what it takes,” Leone...
...Shapiro finished the season fourth in assists and tied for the team lead in goals with junior forwards Tami Jafar and Kayla Romanelli. Despite the loss of Shapiro, who will leave a big hole to fill thanks to her offensive prowess, the team’s defensive core will remain largely intact. “We were a young team, and I think this season was a good set up for the future,” Shapiro said. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...