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...eighth time in the past 14 years, Harvard has won the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The six-hour, 12-question exam was administered by the Mathematical Association of America in December and was taken by a total of 3,753 students from 516 colleges in the United States and Canada. Results were released by the College’s mathematics department on Friday. The winning team members were Tiankai Liu ’08, Alison B. Miller ’08 and Zachary R. Abel ’10, each of whom received a $1,000 award...
...medium breeze and light air on Saturday, and then pretty heavy winds, which we’re not too used to seeing on the [Charles River], on Sunday.”The B division team of junior captain and skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Kerry Anne Bradford finished eighth. Freshman John Stokes sailed with Garrity on Sunday as a heavy-air crew.Meanwhile, freshman Teddy Himler helmed his boat to an 11th-place finish in the C division.Although there were some bright spots in the weekend, including a win and two second-place finishes for the A division pair among...
...situations where if he made the final four, he would have had a good shot at winning because he already beat three of the four semifinalists.” Senior Alexa Weingarden, competing in women’s saber, had the second-best finish for the Crimson after placing eighth overall. “The women’s saber field has top fencers in the national and international levels,” Brand said. “Alexa was dogged about it and worked extremely hard all four years. There’s a very small difference between...
...don’t think he was supposed to go more than four or five,” Stack-Babich said. “He’s always consistent. He throws strikes, never gets flustered.”Stack-Babich gave the Crimson some breathing room in the eighth, doubling Harvard’s two-run lead with a home run to left field, his second of the weekend.OHIO STATE 9, HARVARD 7Senior starter Sean Haviland came out strong in Harvard’s second game of the day on Saturday, giving up only three runs in his first...
...McCain, who is making his eighth trip to Iraq since the U.S. invaded the country in 2003, arrived on Sunday, although for security reasons, only a handful of Iraqis had been made aware of his visit. "Unfortunately," said Faleh Hassan Shansal, a member of the parliamentary bloc loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr, "all American politicians and leaders sneak into Iraq in the darkness, without letting anyone know...