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...targeted at the top 2% of the 27 million golfers hitting the links each year. "We wanted to establish that we could make a product for the best-performing athlete and the best players," says Cindy Davis, U.S. general manager for Nike Golf. "Starting at the top of the pyramid allowed us to draft off that credibility to appeal to other golfers." Nike followed that line with the more forgiving Slingshot series, which again innovated blade design and accommodated the imperfect swings of the average duffer...
...enthusiasm. “Notorious,” choreographed by Katherine N. Howard ’07 and Ingrid Maurice ’07, featured several stunning step sequences that were performed with almost military precision. The dance culminated in a riveting moment where the dancers, in a pyramid configuration, moved completely in unison to The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Spit Your Game.” The piece finished with a bang when Deborah Y. Ho ’07 was launched over the heads of her fellow dancers. The highlight of the entire performance...
...every migrant that makes it into the U.S., hundreds of thousands don’t. For every migrant that decides to make the trip, millions rot in destitution. My experience with Latin American migrants leads me to see each of them enveloped in a sort of pyramid of destruction...
...stories that the media renders most visible in our everyday lives of privilege are those from the top of that pyramid. Even the stories of suffering come mostly from the U.S.-Mexican border, even though most of the death and destruction comes miles before it is even reached. I am probably one of the few fortunate people, traveling frequently between rural Guatemala and the hallowed halls of Harvard, that is lucky enough to be reminded of the top and bottom of that pyramid. What scares me the most is that rural Guatemala is actually middle class in comparison with...
...France, but even the latter bear an average of 1.8 babies, far beyond the rate in neighboring Germany and Spain . The boom may mean more expenditure in coming years on child-care facilities and elementary schools, but demographers point out that it also gives France a more sustainable age pyramid: in 25 years, there will be more French workers to pay taxes and support the pensions of baby boomers ensconced on the Côte d'Azur, nursing their arthritic knees and memories of vacations on the since flooded Maldives. Meanwhile, Germany, Spain and Italy, along with most of Central...