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...Quaffles, Bludgers, and a Snitch (in lay terms, balls). But without bewitched broomsticks and bewinged Snitches, the game has a few differences. Muggle (non-magic) players keep their feet on the ground, holding a broom between their legs, and play in confined areas such as soccer fields. A live person runs on and off the field to play the role of the Snitch, the evasive flying ball whose capture ends the game. Though Harvard lacks a Quidditch team, it isn’t without enthusiasm for the sport. Veteran Quidditch player Christopher J. Carothers ’11 joined...
...being sure that the others knew, and so were intimidated into silence. All it took was for one boy to say ‘The emperor has no clothes!’ and the crowd burst into laughter. Crucially, the boy was not telling a single person anything he didn’t already know. But his words still conveyed information. The information was that all the other people now knew the same thing that each one of them did.” Social change often is a collective action problem: no one is willing to state their knowledge, belief...
...feel very comfortable talking to professors, TFs, and non-students.” All-girls schools also help students participate in the classroom—traditionally a tough sector of the academic world for women to succeed in. “Woodlands definitely helped with my development as a person. I started to feel more comfortable with who I was and speaking up in class,” Marquina says. She carried this sense of self-confidence from the uniform-clad halls of Woodlands Academy to the steps of Widener Library, citing her single-sex education as the main reason...
...Ironically, the person who mattered most in Obama's life is the one we know the least about-maybe because being partly African in America is still seen as being simply black and color is still a preoccupation above almost all else. There is not enough room in the conversation for the rest of a man's story. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...reason to expect this new slot on an org chart to do any more to win the war on poverty than the creation of a cabinet-level drug czar 20 years ago did to win the war on drugs. Hillary suggested it would enhance accountability by making one person responsible for ending poverty: "No more excuses!" But it would actually reduce accountability, encouraging the secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Agriculture and Treasury to consider the alleviation of poverty someone else's problem...