Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...schedules in the nation. The competition pounded the pitching staff and was a major reason why the Crimson’s team ERA spiked to 6.20 in 2008 after the squad led the Ivies with a 4.37 mark last season.Offensively, Harvard never felt comfortable in the preseason and had particular trouble during its spring break trip to California, in which it scored just 1.8 runs per game.“In the preseason, we started off playing some of the best pitching in the country,” Vance said. “We never really got a chance...
...course, any discussion of world affairs today must focus on one region in particular: the Middle East and the Islamic world growing around it. Among all his missteps, President Bush can be commended for emphasizing (rather late) an equitable, two-state solution in Israel-Palestine, the epicenter of that region’s insecurity. We only hope that the two states in question will continue to make strides towards reconciliation, and to transcend the tremendous destruction of the past half-century...
...field of behavioral economics (in particular two amazing researchers: George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec) has rather convincingly shown that money given in different forms can have fundamentally different effects. For example, imagine that you have just finished a delicious dinner for two and it is time to pay the $100 bill. You open your wallet and are faced with your options: cash or credit? The reality is that no matter which option you choose, you will pay the same amount. But paying with a credit card feels very different than paying with cash—it is somewhat less painful...
...which delivery method makes the most sense for distributing tax rebates? Here behavioral economics has been instructive as well. In particular, years of research have demonstrated over and over that our intuitions about the relative effectiveness of different approaches are often wrong. Over the years we’ve learned that we are often wrong about what drives our dishonest behavior, about what makes us enjoy a glass of beer, about what makes us willing to pay different amounts for different products, etc. In essence, our intuitions about what drives our behavior are often misguided...
...Harvard is a place that rewards success, and during senior spring in particular, these awards proliferate. Suddenly it seems that everything can be divided into Summas, Phi Beta Kappas, Hoopes prizes, and prestigious fellowships. But this is not the entire Harvard experience. The Harvard experience entails understanding and experiencing failure. It is comprised of students rising from that failure, overcoming that fear, and excelling in spite of it. That environment—made up of students who experienced few failures before college and have been humbled by Harvard—makes this school the amazing place that...