Word: keyed
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...problem read as follows: "Consider the following payoffs: If the student who took the answer key fails to return it and is eventually caught, he or she will get a zero for the ESS problem set (let's call this cost C). If the student is caught willfully sharing the answer key with other Bio 22 students, the student will be referred to the Administrative Board (suffers cost C as well as the Ad Board cost D). A Bio 22 recipient who refuses to read the answer key and reports the perpetrator who passed it out (given that the perpetrator...
...Though Piel jokes that his zany e-mail was not to be taken seriously, intense Harvard students clearly did not find their head TF's response comical. Only one day after the game theory problem was e-mailed to all Bio 22 students, the answer key reappeared. As far as Piel knows, it was not distributed to any other members of the class. Amazingly, not only did the well-respected TF get his answer key back, he also proved that perhaps information learned in the Harvard classroom is applicable to real life situations. Even science people can get creative sometimes...
Staff consultant Joseph McNamara '96 suggested that I prioritize my global goals. "In a globally competitive market, you need to think broadly about the sheer range of factors that will affect your efficiency," he consulted me. "A key strategic variable in this case could be the exchange rate of the Swedish kroner." I asked him to explain. "This is a different world," he informed me, "a world that requires us management consultants to operate in a genuinely border-less fashion. We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained, multi-year effort to change the way your...
...fatigue set in for the fourth game, Wyant wavered a bit. He committed a few key mishits, and Orphan, still playing strong, sensed the momentum shift. Orphan came out with a 15-9 win, and it looked like he would run Wyant into the ground in the fifth game...
...Prince Abdullah, made successor three weeks ago, is on the Jordanian throne. The abrupt dismissal of Hassan as crown prince did not elicit too much surprise in Israel. Abdullah has his father's politics and his father's support among the key factions of Jordanian society: the Beduoin tribe that hold the commanding posts in the military. But the predicted success and stability for the reign of the next Hashemite king was only a side-bar to the real feelings on both sides of the Jordan River this weekend: how to say goodbye to an ally who became a trusted...