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...going through a particularly difficult stretch that saw Harvard lose six consecutive games, the Crimson seem to have recovered, winning four out of its last five contests and now finds itself peaking at an ideal point of the season. “We’re just on the cusp of getting on a groove as a team,” Byrd said. “[Our trip] to California exposed where we were weak and we’ve done a lot in practice to improve and get ready for the final games of the season...
Today begins Harvard’s Faustian renaissance. The warranty’s out on this University’s newest administrative appliance at a crucial juncture in our history. On the cusp of an epic expansion, a new undergraduate curriculum, and massive administrative turnover, Harvard needs capable leadership now more than ever.It is thus dumbfounding that the University’s Governing Boards would elect to the presidency a pants-wearing, child-bearing scholar of social history (read: history for weaklings) who doesn’t even hold a degree from Harvard. By entrusting our community to a scaredy...
...community into the company, so that it understands more about the issues. The real question is, who adds value most? Also, charities today can become commerce tomorrow. A Vodacom project to provide micro-financing to local entrepreneurs bringing mobile communications to remote areas of South Africa is on the cusp of becoming a major business...
This period was the cusp of the '50s and '60s, and advertising was tuning into social changes, giving a voice to what we now popularly think of as irony. The chain-smoking corporate hipsters of Madison Avenue, Weiner says, tapped into a dissonance apparent to a generation that had seen the horrors of World War II followed by a postwar faade of peace and innocence. Ads like "Think Small" and Avis' "We Try Harder" don't seem shocking now, but they stood out then because they made virtues of limitations. More broadly, they sold the idea that the surface...
...research is at the cusp of a lot of types of modern disciplines,” Auguste says, mentioning that her research integrates fields like cellular and molecular biology, polymer chemistry, material science, and molecular modeling...