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Stay tuned for my reports from each team's venue as I rank my experiences based on quality of team, quality of stadium, and quality of fan base, using factors of my own devising. Each review will consist of a series of items that I deem a plus, minus, or neutral. I will grade each experience on a bell curve, accounting for Harvard grade inflation, of course. And, when all is said and done at the end of the four weeks, I'll determine which team deserves my devout faith. Dixon McPhillips '10, a Crimson sports chair, is a visual...
...sudden fame was a lifetime away from the dark hours she and her mother had spent in a crowded lifeboat in the North Atlantic after the Titanic sank in 1912. Dean's 2-year-old brother was discovered aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and the family--minus Dean's father, who drowned--returned safely to England. They were fortunate. Most of the children traveling in third class died...
...determine leverage, Schulte divided U.S. banks' tangible assets (that is, assets, including loans, minus intangibles such as goodwill) by their tangible capital (the book value of capital minus intangibles). He got a ratio of 24.8. This is a worrying multiple: the leverage of U.S. banks in 1993, years before the start of the asset bubble whose excesses have now brought the world to its economic knees, was just 20. To bring leverage back to that pre-bubble level, Nomura estimates that U.S. banks need to either shed $2.8 trillion in tangible assets (by selling loan portfolios, subsidiaries and other holdings...
Philip J. Fisher’s class on Aestheticism and Modernism—and reading period—have taught me the importance of a sense of playfulness. I’ve learned that there are two approaches to a T minus 24-hours sense of panic: partaking in a dining hall arms race (“Only two papers? Try three.”) and snapping at strangers, or slowing down, taking my computer to Café Algiers, and appreciating January’s new fallen snow...
...might be a good time to ponder that great philosophical question: does any of it really matter? In the grand scheme of things, will your sense of well-being be affected by the fact that you failed this exam (meaning, got a B minus) many years...