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...victory.“We didn’t have enough intensity, and [we] played down to the level of our opponent,” Martin said.The Crimson cannot afford do the same at 1 p.m. Saturday, when it takes on nationally-ranked crosstown rival Boston University at Nickerson Field.—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...symposium last night in Harvard Hall, four scholars from prominent universities presented research that stretches the limits of traditional economics with modern scientific advances. The two-hour event—entitled “A Symposium on Economic Decision Making”—focused on the nascent field of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economics that challenges classical assumptions of economic theory. “Economics is actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later redeeming...
...authors. Founded in 2002, the mission of the Hiphop Archive is to gather resources for the research of the past and present of hip-hop culture. “The Archive opens up the doors to the idea that hip-hop is a respectable and important academic field,” said Akshata Kadagathur ’11, an intern at the Archive. “It’s a great resource, especially on a campus where hip-hop doesn’t have a very big venue.” Courtney E. Rose, a graduate student of Professor...
...full professorship at the law school, and will also be affiliated with the sociology and politics departments. Goodman could not be reached for comment yesterday. Alford said that although Goodman would be a loss to the Law School, his colleagues would continue to produce strong scholarship in the field, since Harvard had built a strong contingent of international law scholars during the tenure of Law School dean Elena Kagan. “We have probably the most intellectually diverse group of faculty in the United States working on international and comparative law issues, with all kinds of different viewpoints...
...group's first test will come during June's European elections, which choose the U.K.'s representatives to the European Parliament. After that, the Jury Team competes in the general elections, which will take place some time before May 2010. The Team plans to field 70 candidates for the elections in June and a confident Judge believes the movement will "release the same wave of energy as was unleashed by Barack Obama." It's early yet, but as of Tuesday morning only 10 people had created online profiles, and just 35 had voted by texting in the name of their...