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Whether Beal can become entrenched on the wing, however, is still to be determined. Housman started at point guard in Harvard’s sole exhibition game last Saturday and played a team-high 22 minutes, compiling a 6-to-3 assist-to-turnover ratio. The rookie from Calabasas, Calif. is the frontrunner to begin the year as the team’s floor general, despite Sullivan’s reluctance to entrust first year players with crucial duties...
...Princeton entered last weekend’s 21-14 loss to Yale as the league leader in turnover ratio but left in sixth after the Bulldogs forced seven turnovers...
...some stereotypes are based on truth. Harvard is in fact a wealthy place: more than 80 percent of the Class of 2009 hails from the top half of the national income distribution. It can also be difficult for students to garner personal attention: the student-to-faculty ratio is higher than Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. And an internal Harvard memo from 2002 revealed that Harvard students rate their campus’s social life below many of their peers at other elite schools. The memo, first reported in The Boston Globe, ranked Harvard 26th...
...ALSO RUN THE RISK OF HARNESSING OUR COLLECTIVE IDIOCY? EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN ON THE WEB KNOWS THAT THE RATIO OF SIGNAL TO NOISE IS NOT ALWAYS OPTIMAL...
...hepatitis B virus. In a paper that will be published in the Journal of Political Economy, she showed that mothers who carry hepatitis B are 1.5 times more likely to bear a boy instead of a girl. “Countries with more hepatitis have higher sex ratios [male to female] at birth,” she wrote in an e-mail. In most parts of the world, the number of newborn girls has roughly equaled the number of newborn boys. But historically there has been a pattern of gender imbalance in China—and over the past...