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Perhaps he’s right, but if The Analyst dilutes its mission with such a populist approach, it will forfeit its niche as Harvard College’s academic finance journal. The magazine will lose its identity, a rare commodity when you’re one of three business publications on a relatively small college campus. Harvard Investment Magazine, after all, which has been around since 2003, describes its purpose in terms remarkably similar to The Analyst’s, promising to blend “professional articles, interviews, and academic research to offer a comprehensive array of commentary...
...steered the Harvard squad to an A-division victory and a sixth-place overall finish out of twenty teams, while junior Matt Knowles filled in for a sick teammate in the D-division race. “Last week was more of an exception, since the singlehanded events are rare,” Knowles said. “This regatta was actually one of the most teamwork-oriented because we had all four divisions competing to get the best score overall.” Said Lynch, “I felt very positively about it; we did very well...
...Tamimi openly boasts to have trained. "I have always tried to avoid civilian casualties," he says. "I always try to attack the American military." It's an implausible claim. According to the "Rand Terrorism Chronology," which tracks suicide bombings in Iraq, attacks on U.S. military targets are relatively rare, but there have been more than 250 assaults on civilian targets in 2005 alone, killing more than 2,400 Iraqis and injuring 5,200 others. Pressed, al-Tamimi says angrily, "Civilian deaths are regrettable, but when you are in a freedom struggle, it sometimes happens...
...watchdog organization, petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water as a carcinogen. The group cited "decades of peer-review studies" on fluoride's "ability to mutate DNA and its known deposition on the ends of growing bones, the site of osteosarcoma"--a rare, often fatal cancer that affects mainly boys...
...place to shout out crazy ideas, to debate and wrestle with complicated issues, and generally look forward to attending every week. My impression was about as wrong as the O.J. Simpson jury.The most tangible problem with sections is the people who teach them. TFs, with rare exception, tend to fall into one of two categories. Either they are disinterested and aloof, primarily using their section time as a chance to hit on undergraduate girls, or they are lacking confidence—confused and naïve to the point where they seem to know little more about the subject than...