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...will revamp all three sections of the test to include different types of questions. The verbal section will shift emphasis away from knowledge of vocabulary and toward critical reading skills, the quantitative section will replace some geometry questions with data interpretation, and the writing section promises to be shorter and more analytical. It is heartening to see such a widely used assessment retooled to evaluate reasoning abilities acquired over time through assiduous undergraduate work rather than the same innate talents measured by the SAT and other disguised IQ tests. While standardized test scores can never succinctly capture a candidate?...
...Crimson led the field of 10 teams both Saturday and yesterday. Temperatures in the forties made it difficult for the golfers to perform at their best. Besides the physical setbacks—cold hands and bulky clothing—the golfers had to worry about golf balls sailing shorter distances and about struggling on tougher greens. The course was in good condition, however, and Harvard was able to use the layout, which favors straight hitting, to its advantage. The Crimson dominated Saturday’s competition—Harvard golfers occupied the top five individual spots and the Crimson?...
This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal...
...attributed to him.” As a native of the east coast—he graduated from St. Mary’s in Annapolis, Md.—Garcia stands out as one of the few easterners among a team of Californians. As one of the shorter members of the team, Garcia isn’t your typical water polo player, but his strength and speed enable him to rise out the water and overpower his opponents. And his game is louder than his mouth. “He is not much of a talker,” Burmeister...
...arrives this January. All in all, a man who can multiply both money and knowledge is an altogether valuable thing in a university community. The Oxbridge-educated El-Erian has a resume that boasts a 15-year stint at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as a shorter one at the brokerage of Salomon Smith Barney. Prior to accepting the HMC position, El-Erian was managing a $28 billion emerging market portfolio at the Pacific Investment Managing Company (PIMCO), an endowment slightly larger than Harvard’s $25.9 billion war chest. All of this makes El-Erian supremely...