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...take the No. 1 seed into Sprints a year ago. The 2005 squad blitzed the field during the dual season to snatch the No. 1 ranking in the weeks before Sprints.This dual season was less dominant and more tumultuous, marked both by brilliance in bad weather and an uncharacteristic letdown in the final 20 strokes against Brown.With two dual losses, the Crimson varsity is seeded third behind favorite Princeton and Brown, the surprise of the dual season. Brown ousted Harvard by a seat in a come-from-behind win in Providence, and the Tigers dismantled the Crimson...
...would have been easy for the team to let down, especially in a race against MIT, against whom they were favored. But on a day when the varsity eight’s race was cancelled, the varsity four and novice eight teams did not allow the letdown to happen. The squads took the lead, pushing the Black and White forward for next weekend’s Eastern Sprints. “The race the novice eight and varsity four had,” Antony said, “definitely is moving our team in the right direction coming off last...
...that. Sometimes serious thought about concentration choice does not even occur until after students have put their name to a choice. A wholly inadequate system of non-concentration advising only makes it more likely that students’ time before declaring will not be well spent. But the true letdown about delayed concentration choice is not the likelihood that it will fail to result in more informed choices by students—it is the doors that the later choice closes. In an effort to be more like other schools, Harvard is forgetting to be itself. Harvard has a culture...
...thing is for sure: For the business trial of the century, the Enron trial thus far has been something of a letdown - especially its peek into the Enron executive suite. Lay and Skilling may have transformed a stodgy natural-gas carrier into a global trader in everything from energy to weather futures and broadband, but the two men remained surprisingly old-school when it came to technology. Take Skilling, a Harvard School of Business grad and master of this brave new digital world. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission went after Enron for the California energy crisis, it built...
...perhaps the whole week of lamentation was an electronically stimulated hysteria, an ersatz binge catered by press and television barons that will be followed some morning soon by a massive letdown and hangover. Or again, maybe Diana's too brief life and meteoric streak across the world's consciousness enraptured people by its mythic qualities. A ballet shoe tied last week to the railing outside Kensington Palace was inscribed, "You were a Cinderella at the Ball and now you are a Sleeping Beauty...