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...personality: bound out of the barrier, cruise to the lead or park just off it, gallop relentlessly to the line. "He had the reflexes of a springbok," says South African Felix Coetzee, the only jockey to have ridden Silent Witness in a race. "The moment you gave him the signal to go, he jumped...
...media force that just won’t go away. The new wave of radio technology on the horizon, such as satellite, high definition, and internet broadcasts, guarantees to alter the industry in exciting, but unpredictable ways.Until someone comes up with a better medium than the pervasive, egalitarian radio signal, however, radio will continue to be worthy of our attention.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon are executives at WHRB, Harvard’s student- run radio station. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...
...year-old company. Yahoo!, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., also reorganized its 11,000 employees in December from many overlapping subgroups into three distinct business units: Web communities, advertisers and infrastructure. Susan Decker, the company's chief financial officer since 2000, was promoted to oversee the advertising group, a signal to analysts that she might be in line to succeed Semel...
...time when the presidential campaign “is going into hyper speed.” Shaheen said it is important for the political contenders to establish “markers”—landmarks along the campaign trail including endorsements, donations, or position papers that signal the relative strengths of presidential campaigns. “I hope this will be one of the events that helps lay down some of those markers and sets the frame for what happens in the 2008 race,” she said. Getting political advisers to divulge their campaign secrets...
...Task Force found almost no discussion of teaching in formal case statements for junior faculty appointments. For tenured appointments, such statements were shockingly irregular. The committee correctly suggests that teaching records should be examined more thoroughly and consistently. A change will only occur when Harvard sends a clear signal to prospective faculty members that teaching matters in tenure decisions.Second, the Task Force’s proposal to create a system for faculty to audit and evaluate their colleagues’ courses will create a culture of constructive criticism that can only benefit teaching. Similar systems already exist at many...