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...boss said" (invoking the name of a rainmaker, sometimes falsely, to get your way), stealing credit and--that time-tested misdeed--scurrilous gossiping. Simply waking up to games people play and rejecting them is a big part of the battle for executives, say the authors. But don't expect to zap all games: that's "akin to trying to stop employees from daydreaming...
...alarm bell Isaacson's article should have rung is why no one seems to expect the participation of the nation's mathematicians or their two professional societies in the construction of national mathematics standards for K-12. No other nation would dream of developing national mathematics standards without a sign-off by the country's mathematics community. Perhaps this exclusion of mathematicians is one reason children in the U.S. do not do as well on the international scene in mathematics as we would like them to. As a former official at the Massachusetts Department of Education, I will tell...
...hits, she also had eight strikeouts to improve her own all-time Harvard record to 211 K’s in a single season.“I love pitching for this team,” Brown said. “I certainly didn’t expect to get this much time my freshman year so I appreciate the opportunity to help out this team any way I could.”Co-captain Hayley Bock anchored the Crimson’s offensive efforts against its cross-town rivals in her last appearance in a Harvard uniform with...
...start in league play a 2-22 record overall, did the team finally appear somewhat motivated, playing .500 ball the rest of the way.A season in which Harvard finished so far from reaching its originally lofty goals has to be considered a failure. At the onset of 2009, expectations for the Crimson were more tempered. Haviland and Unger were gone, leaving sophomore Max Perlman—coming back from a year off—as the closest thing to a sure bet on the pitching staff. The rotation would have to be pieced together with sophomores that had shown flashes...
Students who rely on recreational facilities at the Malkin Athletic Center during the summer should expect long wait times for machines, older equipment, fewer classes, and overcrowding. According to athletic department officials who spoke to The Crimson on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, the MAC will remain closed during the summer, leaving students with two smaller, less centrally-located facilities: Hemenway Gymnasium near the Law School and the Murr Center, situated across the Charles River by the athletic fields. As part of the University’s sweeping cost-cutting measures, the initiative aims to slash...