Word: predictabilities
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...Students predict whose time...
...give our readers a taste of what the future held for Harvard sports, FM recruited a Crimson sports writer. We did not realize that he would actually predict the future. Feb. 17: At Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard men’s basketball team takes on the University of Pennsylvania (the “George Mason of 2007”). The result: Harvard comes all the way back from 25 down to win, 75-74, on a last-second shot from Jeremy S. Lin ’10. The crowd, largest in Lavietes’s history, storms the court. March...
...concentrations system in 1919. A new Web site, secondaryfields.fas.harvard.edu, details 49 secondary fields of four to six half-courses now available in 27 departments.Across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, department heads were cautious in forecasting the impact of secondary fields. “No one was able to predict, or pretend to predict, what secondary fields would mean for large departments,” said Nancy L. Rosenblum, the chair of the Government Department, home to the second-largest concentration after economics. Part of the impetus for implementing secondary fields was to attract more students to smaller departments...
...achieve what I wanted." He concedes that his "gloom" has been triggered in part by health problems (emergency prostate surgery in November, a pending adrenal operation sometime during the next few weeks). He talks of taking a protracted sabbatical, although friends note that his temperament is mercurial and predict that such impulses will pass. His most reliable comforts, he says, are his children. Nancy, an aspiring director, staged a production last summer of Biloxi Blues in Fish Creek, Wis., which Simon came to see. Ellen, 29, a choreographer and aspiring screenwriter, lives in Toronto with her husband and Simon...
...YANKEES What economists are struggling to predict is how pervasive the impact of this housing slowdown will be on the rest of the U.S. economy, and abroad. Perhaps most surprising, American consumers are continuing to spend, regardless: automobile purchases are sluggish, but retail sales rose by a higher-than-forecast 0.9% in December. "I'm not prepared to bet against the American consumer. That's a highly dangerous proposition," says Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist for Merrill Lynch...