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...conspicuously absent from the outfield. Vance stayed home yesterday to visit with doctors about what appeared to be a torn labrum, the principal muscle of the throwing shoulder. Until Sunday’s game against Cornell, he had been playing through pain in centerfield. Vance denied that he would opt for surgery this early in the season, saying he planned to resume his normal place in the lineup for the rest of the season, probably at DH. Departed slugger Zak Farkes ’06-’07 battled a similar injury early in his Harvard career, undergoing surgery...
...less satisfied. The game theory dynamic is unavoidable. Dog eats dog in the Harvard world, and graduating without this additional feather in one’s cap will be frowned upon soon enough. Once there is a secondary field option in place, and as a few students begin to opt into it, a large number of students will quickly feel compelled to do so as well. Harvard is currently one of the few bastions of higher education spared the onslaught of double-major-triple-minor students. We want it to stay that way. The philosophy behind Harvard?...
...intrusive. Not everyone wants to be talked to by a billboard. "If somebody starts pinging phones, there's going to be consumer backlash," says Tom Burgess, CEO of Third Screen Media, a mobile-marketing and software consultant. For that reason, the newest high-tech outdoor campaigns invite consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon it posts selected photos on the 23-story sign. Up the street, Walt Disney World advertises...
...voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope that Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore...
...voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore time's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid...