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...However, recent behavior this year has raised doubt about the “entrepreneurial” spirit of Harvard students. After Harvard-Yale tickets were sold out, it became apparent that there was a large gap between supply and demand. Students—such as seniors who did not want to miss their last Game—scrambled for tickets, pleading over e-mail lists for those with extra. Within minutes, some students offered up their tickets for free, at face value, or a little above. However, these benevolent e-mails were immediately followed by those from...
...sophomore standout has not competed since Jan. 3.With a slew of grapplers who are constrained to the bench or held to limited action as they recover, the Crimson has struggled to demonstrate its full potential. As the season progresses, though, Weiss maintains that his squad will close the gap on programs like Penn.“Everything’s gearing up for the end of the year, and when we get Jantzen back that’s huge,” he said. “Our tournament team is better than our dual team...
...know what they want to do at the beginning of their second year,” Kessler said. “With this schedule, decisions will have to be made over the summer.” Much of last fall’s economic turmoil occurred in the gap between when most other top law school’s welcome recruiters and Harvard Law School conducts their interviews. As a result, rattled law firms changed their hiring goals and cut the number of Harvard summer associates they planned to hire. Some students were therefore forced to find jobs using means...
...Much of the gap was closed by freezing hiring for open staff positions—a move also taken by the divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and cutting nonessential discretionary spending, said Harry E. Dumay, dean of finance at SEAS...
...This gap between Livio and his readers is exacerbated by his failure to reach a satisfying conclusion in the closing pages of “Is God a Mathematician?”. After lauding mathematics as the key to understanding the universe for eight chapters, Livio writes that “mathematics is indeed extraordinarily effective for some descriptions, especially those dealing with fundamental science, but it cannot describe our universe in all its dimensions.” He explains that the predictive and explanatory powers of mathematics have been amplified by scientists who choose to work on problems that...