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With enough common ground to start a border dispute, coming to the decision of which candidate to support was nigh impossible, so students chose personality and popularity instead as the deciding factor. K’idar J. Miller ’08, a Grays Hall resident and a Moore-Nichols supporter, agreed to display campaign signs for the ticket in his windows facing the Yard. Asked about his decision to support Moore-Nichols, Miller said that visibility was a key factor: “I heard more about them than about the other guys. They were more publicized...
Decker, who received a summons to appear in court on the night of the incident but was not arrested, said she suspects her race was a factor. Both she and Mayer are black...
...know is that in all the job searches I have been a part of, ideology and partisanship have never been a factor,” he said. “Harvard looks for the most brilliant and promising, and none of us have been willing—or even tempted—to compromise these for the sake of ideology, partisanship or anything else...
...during this weekend’s two-game set, both teams found depth to be the deciding factor—a factor that Stone alluded to a few weeks ago as one of the advantages Harvard holds over the WCHA teams it has faced...
...drug targets a protein called Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNK). TNK can help immune systems fight infections and tumors, but an excess of it causes inflammatory diseases. Xencor's protein binds with the excess TNK and shuts it down. The company believes this is a superior approach to existing treatments, which simply seek to lower TNK levels. Xencor's approach derives from a process Dahiyat invented in 1997 while a graduate student at Caltech. Instead of using time-consuming methods like trial and error, he asked a computer to figure out what mix of amino acids would make a protein...