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Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
...Harvard women’s golf team broke its one-day low score record on Saturday for the second time this season. The Crimson’s total score of 301, a two-stroke improvement over the previous record, earned the team second place in a field of 11 colleges at the William and Mary Invitational. The team was greeted with rain when it arrived at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va. on Friday. Harvard got through only seven holes of its practice round before the rain rendered the course unplayable. The rain did not abate and the tournament...
...tempered by an offer by OPEC to release an extra 2 million barrels a day on world markets, which helped prices to ease slightly on the New York Mercantile Exchange-where the cost of a barrel of light crude had risen by more than $4 Monday, the biggest one-day increase in history...
...Crimson proved that it could do even better than merely overcome its losses by setting a new team record. After a slow start on Saturday, Harvard had a record-breaking outing Sunday at the Dartmouth Invitational in Hanover, New Hampshire. The team broke the Crimson’s one-day total record by a whopping nine strokes, erasing any doubts about living up to last season’s end-of-the-year success. The entire team shot in the 70s—something that did not happen in any of last year’s tournaments...
Balmert, the other freshman, shot a 78 yesterday, as did Amanti and Cronan. The team’s one-day total was a nine-stroke improvement over the previous record...