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...Although she believes that her best chance at Olympic glory is the team event, Cross still has a shot at garnering individual success. Reaching the podium in the individual competition, however, will be very difficult since there will be experienced and higher-ranked women waiting for her. Italy, in particular, has had the women’s foil weapon in a stranglehold—four Italian women currently sit in the top six in the international standings. “Right now it’s going to be very difficult to crack into those top four spots, which have...
...important for potential thesis writers. Without the constant demands of papers and midterms, juniors studying abroad have time to refine thesis topics and conduct original research far before they have to choose an advisor or commit to a topic. Very few non-study abroad students have this luxury. In particular, making headway on thesis research during junior year is useful for students who wish to hold summer internships before their senior year. Students who spend that final summer working often find themselves back at Harvard in September with a job, but no idea what their thesis is about. Planned well...
...Consequently, it’s important to keep in mind how much the virtual life has deeply remodeled our ways of conceptualizing space in a way that older generations can’t understand. We have entered an age in which not only particular tastes about spaces, but the basic assumptions about what space is are being revolutionized...
...service, or gauge how I was going to react to his position. Or Rumsfeld might have been anticipating a big political shift in Congress after the midterm November elections, which, in turn, might lead to Democratic-controlled hearings. I didn't know exactly why it happened at this particular time. I just know that it did happen...
...shortly after graduating from MIT, DeBergalis found his interest in his work waning. “So much of it is so divorced from anything in particular,” he says of his time writing code and running scripts. “I could never explain to my mom what I did or why she couldn’t buy what I wrote...