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Courses most likely to be lotteried may actually have preregistration estimates that are inflated, while small courses not expecting more than a handful of students might be bombarded by the masses. The Core office, which administers some of the largest courses at Harvard, is now able to predict enrollments with surprising accuracy based on when the course was last offered, how many students may still need to fulfill the specific requirement, and how many other courses are offered in that area. University Hall can also provide predictions to faculty members. Whether those faculty members choose to listen to them...
After playing with the same high school team for six years, Maasdorp could predict her teammates’ next moves, not by a set game plan but through knowledge of their natural strategy. Acclimation to Harvard has presented the dual challenges of a new team and a more fixed movement than the “spur-of-the-moment” Zimbabwean approach...
...more mystery for investigators to ponder. A side note on the tarot card: those familiar with tarot card meanings say that whoever left the card at the crime scene probably doesn't know much about tarot or how to read cards. The death card doesn't actually signal or predict death; it's a sign of transition or change - a "death," as it were, of a previous habit or way of life...
...have some adjusting to do. Athens will not be Sydney. The Australians staged enormously successful Games in venues built in special sports parks located in open space. But the Games in Athens will be played mostly in older, smaller, refurbished venues scattered amid a dense, urban setting. Critics predict gridlock, but planners speak of a more intimate Games, much like Barcelona in 1992. "We will have Games on a human scale," says Angelopoulos. That will suit Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C.'s new president, who is determined to reduce the scale and complexity of the Olympics. At Seoul in 1988, almost...
Domna Antonia, Annenberg card-swiper I don’t know what the future is going to bring to me. It is hard to predict...