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...fans in Levien watched as the ball kissed the rim and bounced back towards the court, gracing the fingers of several Crimson players before finding its way back into Bulger’s waiting hands. The guard sent the ball back towards the rim, and this time it would fall.“[Bulger] hit a tough, spinning, one-handed shot,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “[Captain Andrew Pusar] was right there and he played good defense I thought.”“We had our chances—one defensive rebound...
ITHACA, N.Y.—Coming off a 1-4 home stand at Lavietes Pavilion, the Harvard men’s basketball team received a taste of a true home court advantage Friday night, falling to Cornell in a 96-75 blowout at Newman Arena. Led by all-Ivy forward Ryan Wittman’s 20 points, the Big Red (16-7, 6-1 Ivy) extended its home win streak to a school-record 18 straight games. Although it put up its highest point total since defeating Boston College over a month ago, the Crimson (10-11, 2-5) also...
...Brown—the team with the worst record in the Ivy League after the first period—metamorphosed during halftime. Following an unimpressive first half, Harvard returned to the court and began making shots, forcing turnovers and building up momentum against a team that was forced to fall back on its star player down the line. The Crimson ultimately came away victorious thanks to these improved efforts, an epic stuff by senior Evan Harris, and a final-second free-throw from junior Jeremy Lin.The sluggish start, the energized return, the discombobulated opponent—the comeback trend seemed...
...Consider a thought experiment proposed by Greg Mankiw. The government could send each person in the country a check with which he could pay his neighbor to dig holes in his backyard. Unemployment would fall, but so would welfare. Consumers could buy more useful goods if government allowed them to keep their money. Unfortunately, Japan casts such a long shadow that Obama and his advisers think the economy will tank by the time consumers spend or businesses reinvest...
...Presidents shouldn’t appoint just anyone to their administrations, and Harvard offers some great talents. But no matter how smart they are, professors are still human. Groups of likeminded people fall victim to groupthink—sometimes with disastrous results. Indeed, when David Halberstam wrote his account of the Johnson administration’s bungling of Vietnam, he entitled it, “The Best and the Brightest...