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...lzer, who calls himself "perhaps a little old-fashioned," is not a fan of M.B.A.s. "I favor a system where you learn how to think, how to combine things, how to set priorities," he says. "The subject you studied in school doesn't mean anything. What is significant is the training of your brain. My doctorate is in logistics, and I never worked in logistics, while our head of production logistics did his doctorate in nuclear physics." What he instead values most is instinct. "But you have to train that instinct," he notes...
...play was far from perfect. Harvard failed to convert on three power-play opportunities, but this trend would soon change. After a comparatively slow start, the Crimson caught fire during the second period. The Bobcats left the locker room determined to swing the momentum back in their favor, but Harvard maintained its composure.“I think that we recognize that [the Bobcats are] a very dangerous team that’s very good offensively,” Donato said. “We didn’t want to get in a position where we were turning...
...Walt said. “Voices challenging the decision for war were much more frequent, were much more common in the academy than they were in the American political system,” Walt said. “Inside the beltway in Washington, almost everybody seemed to be in favor of it.” MEA CULPAIgnatieff’s account of the particular factors that led to his own failure of judgment comes in a single paragraph near the end of the article. A 1992 visit to the sites of the Kurdish genocide carried out on the orders...
...billion increase to its proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—by far Harvard’s largest source of federal dollars. Thursday’s vote came two days after University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of boosting the Institutes’ budget. NIH’s funding has seen a real-dollars decline in the last three years, leading many scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars over the last five years...
...Crimson’s special teams also proved crucial to Harvard’s success offensively. 37 seconds after Quinnipiac’s only goal of the game, sophomore Doug Rogers capitalized on a Bobcat penalty to put the momentum back in the Crimson’s favor. At 11:35 Rogers lit the lamp with a shot from the left side to put Harvard back in the lead, 2-1. And Taylor knocked in his third shorthanded goal of the season to put Harvard on the board, 1-0. Picking up the puck from a Quinnipiac defender, Taylor brought...