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After a disappointing second place finish in last year’s Ivy Championships, losing to Princeton by only 16 points, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team is ready to take on the challenge of a new season...
Sailing 10 races over two breezy days on the Charles River, Harvard edged out Boston College 134-142 to finish first among 10 teams...
Skippered by junior Jessica Baker and crewed by senior Jenny Wong, the Crimson’s B-division struggled early in the regatta, finishing better than seventh just once in their first seven races. Before the seventh race, however, captain Daphne Lyman substituted in to crew, and the duo rallied to post top-three finishes in the final three races and claim a sixth-place finish...
...sneakers are now assembled rapidly, down the line, and if anyone identifies a faulty stitch, for instance, the problem is fixed before a large batch of defective shoes can pile up. Factory workers, who aren't unionized, are encouraged to point out mistakes, and they help one another finish jobs instead of standing around. Overall, the changes have cut the production cycle from eight days to eight hours, slashing inventories and yielding big savings...
Wolfe's previous novel, A Man in Full, published in 1998, took him 11 long years to finish, and when he was finally through, he wasted no time looking around for fresh territory. He likes to portray himself as a literary opportunist: in his 1989 manifesto "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," he scolded American novelists for writing minimalist, self-conscious little books when there's so much rich, strange, documentary material out there. "They don't want to see the world," he has said, "they want to suck their thumbs." After A Man in Full, it occurred to Wolfe...