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That is the question that vexes travelers seeking air tickets--buy, or wait in hope of a price drop? Thanks to computer scientist Oren Etzioni, an answer may be just a few mouse clicks away. Etzioni's site Farecast.com original name was, of course, Hamlet--provides the lowest fare on a route, a 90-day price history and, using a novel predictive algorithm, a tip to "buy now" or "wait," along with a figure indicating how confident Farecast is in its advice. (Flyers buy directly from the airlines.) Boston and Seattle are currently the only searchable points of origin...
...season bout, granting him the No. 1 seed in this weekend’s tournament. Harvard was billed to send four players to the annual tournament, which collects the 64 best national squash players to determine the national singles champion. Suchde was joined by teammates No. 7 seed Ilan Oren, a junior, and freshman Verdi DiSesa, who was seeded first in the lower Molloy Tournament. Broadbent was given the No. 5 national seed but was unable to go, due to a pulled hamstring in a loss against Trinity at last month’s CSA Team Championships?...
...court. “With his injury, Julian [Illingsworth] was really no match for Sid [Suchde],” Broadbent said. “With strength and quickness, Sid kind of rolled over him.” The other high-seeded matches followed suit, with Broadbent and junior Ilan Oren sweeping 3-0 at numbers two and three, respectively. “It was my last collegiate match,” Broadbent said. “So I was pretty fired up.” As it turned out, it was the fourth-seeded match, which paired the Crimson?...
...make sure that I did not lose twice to Trinity,” Broadbent said. “I wanted a little bit of redemption...and so I looked at this match as settling the score a little bit, on a personal note.” After junior Ilan Oren defeated Jacques Swanepoel, 9-4, 9-6, 7-9, 9-3, in the third position, a trio of Harvard juniors—Jason De Lierre, Garnett Booth, and Mihir Sheth—fell in succession. Junior Todd Ostrow was never in the ninth position match, losing...
...months ago, Israeli Army officer Michael B. Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported...