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...first half when he committed three turnovers, but he settled down after the break and didn’t give the ball away once despite handling it on many occasions. “I think he was disturbed at halftime that he was hurting our assist-turnover ratio,” Sullivan said. “But that was just him getting used to the speed of the game and the way he was being guarded. I thought he did an excellent job, as the game went on, showing very good poise.” Lin also had a strong...
...service too." Although the Free State Project doesn't endorse political candidates, some members have been making competitive runs for local office, including some staunch home-schooling advocates who have been elected to local school boards. With one state legislator for every 3,000 or so citizens (the best ratio of any state), New Hampshire has a proud tradition of hyper-representative government, but as in the rest of the country, many of its citizens are apathetic about politics. By simply showing up and speaking out at public meetings, the Free Staters are filling the participatory void. They helped block...
...learn. Any desire for instruction is an acknowledgment of ignorance. We are thus not ready to make decisions about what a “liberal arts” education means. The ability to make an informed choice is perverted into searching the CUE Guide for the most acceptable ratio between course difficulty and workload. Though it may sound unpopular, what we need is less freedom: We need a system like Columbia’s. The Columbia Core is a rigid requirement of ten arenas, concentrating portal courses in Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization, Frontiers of Science, Art Humanities, and even Physical...
...you’ve ever told: I don’t lie. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: When I run, my ears catch the wind and get cold. That is uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Cords. Yes, cords. Sexiest physical trait: My biceps/thigh circumference ratio. Favorite part about Harvard: The fencing team (of course). Describe yourself in three words: Lost in translation. In 15 minutes you are: Eating dinner. In 15 years you are: Nowhere to be seen or eating dinner...
...Harvard, whose overall score of 100 this year was 3.2 percentage points higher than second-place Cambridge University’s score, topped MIT last year by 13 percentage points. The rankings were determined by a range of criteria, including a peer review, the student-to-faculty ratio, the number of university professors’ citations in academic papers, and the percentage of international students and faculty. Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said the first-place finish was gratifying, but she added that the admissions office does not place much emphasis...