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Joining Vloka in the sabre was freshman Elena Helgiu, who helped the sabre team sweep Sacred Heart and Vassar, 9-0, and best North Carolina, 7-2. The rookie has proven to be the answer to the Crimson’s sabre woes of last year. Sophomore Hayley Levitt also stepped up to help the sabre team surpass Penn State, 5-4. The squad’s only loss in the weapon was to Princeton...
...Crimson was able to place nine of its fencers on the day, all of whom were freshmen and sophomores. In addition to Vloka’s performance, Harvard placed two other sabre fencers, including freshman Elena Helgiu in 16th and sophomore Hayley Levitt in 28th...
Finally, there is the gift of humility, which parents need to offer one another. We can fuss and fret and shuttle and shelter, but in the end, what we do may not matter as much as we think. Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt analyzed a Department of Education study tracking the progress of kids through fifth grade and found that things like how much parents read to their kids, how much TV kids watch and whether Mom works make little difference. "Frequent museum visits would seem to be no more productive than trips to the grocery store," they...
...Levitt makes for an awfully diffident imperialist. When half of this year's economics Nobel went to a political scientist, he wrote that "the prize is moving toward a Nobel in social science, not a Nobel in economics." But his belief in the power of economic methods remains strong. "For me, being anchored in the data is the most important thing," Levitt says. "It's about applying data in an unemotional way to emotional issues...
Except when you can't. In Superfreakonomics, he and Dubner detour from small puzzles (can you find a terrorist by using financial data? How much money do prostitutes make?) to tackle the big, big issue of global warming. This is partly an opportunity for Levitt to express his skepticism of models of complex phenomena such as the global economy or, in this case, the global climate. Mainly, though, it's an excuse to tout the mind-blowing ideas for combatting global warming that he and Dubner learned about while hanging out with former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold...