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...mail to Harvard faculty. “While I am sorry to lose him as a member of my staff, I am excited for him as he takes this next step,” Smith wrote. “I have no doubt that he will excel in his new role.” Faculty across a broad range of academic disciplines at DePauw expressed excitement at Casey’s appointment from a pool of over 200 original applicants. “When you hear Dr. Casey talk, you can’t help but feel his passion...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dean Leaves To Lead Depauw | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

When prices are falling, few people have the discipline to buy stocks, a house, gold, art or any other asset. But those who do pull the trigger excel in the long run. As John D. Rockefeller famously said, "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignore the Headlines | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...little weird that Manteris' team of statisticians set the odds at exactly even. I was about to bet $100 that the first touchdown scorer had gone to a good school when my old Stanford roommate, Ben Wu, decided to run the numbers. According to Wu and perhaps this Excel document he sent me that I can't follow, there's only a 46.1% chance that the first touchdown will be scored by someone who went to a Top 100 school. Which did not stop me from placing my bet. Because real gambling isn't about the odds; it's about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stupid Bowl | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...This is a way of providing students who really excel in such a degree of academics and performance level with an outlet to pursue both of these interests,” Novak says...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: They Study to Their Own Soundtrack | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...were 25 again, handed a modern racquet and given six months to practice with it and whip yourself into shape, could you excel in the current era? Is there anything about the demands of modern tennis that you couldn't have coped with? These hypotheticals can come from a hundred different directions. But I finished my career in the seniors playing with a larger-headed racquet - it was wood and graphite. And I went back about 10 years! It was, "Hey, I can serve, I can volley." I had a bigger surface to play with and could put more spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legend Rod Laver on Tennis Today | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

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