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Today, the first student, Andrei Shleifer ’82, is a Harvard professor, one of the most widely-cited economists in the world and a winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, the biennial award given to the top economist under the age of 40. His freshman suitemate, J. Bradford DeLong ’82, is now an economist at the University of California at Berkeley who has written several influential papers on economic history and a host of macroeconomic issues, and runs one of the most popular academic blogs...
Hughes, who won the silver medal in the 2007 U.S. National figure skating competition and competed in the 2006 Olympics, plans to pursue both her competitive figure skating career and full-time studies at Harvard. She will train at the nearby Skating Club of Boston under coaches Peter Johansson and Mark Mitchell...
Emily R. Cross ’08, fencing: The half-Korean won a national title in foil last year and a gold medal at Junior Worlds...
Julie W. Chu ’06-’07, women’s hockey: The half-Chinese Olympian, who already has a silver medal, won the Patty Kazmaier Award as the nation’s best player...
...Choi is probably Korea's best-known gamer, having clinched the gold medal at last year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky...