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...almost all college basketball players are looking at futures in the regular workforce. And in the real world, employers care about skills and knowledge, not whether an applicant played in the Sweet Sixteen...
...Hiscox, said that the experiment’s conclusions were consistent with economic theories about consumer preferences. “The idea is to make consumers aware of what they are buying and to reward good practices,” Kohl-Kaufman said. “For example, my sixteen-year-old daughter won’t buy anything that was made by someone younger than her, but in many cases there is no way to know that.” Smyth, who was a Crimson editorial editor, said that the experiment confirmed his belief that consumers will support good...
...Sixteen out of the 4,000 students who were affected had score increases between 200 and 400 points,” said Jennifer Topiel, executive director of public affairs for the College Board...
...climb to Peter Legate, another British mountaineer who died climbing Mt. Everest for Naomi House in 2002. This is not the first time Obsorne is raising money for Naomi House, which is near his home—he shaved his head for another fund-raiser when he was sixteen. This time around, Osborne is relying mostly on personal contacts and friends for donations, which go directly to charity. Harvard Mountaineering Club President Lucas T. Laursen ’06, who completed his own climbing expedition in southeastern Kyrgyzstan last summer, said he was impressed by Osborne’s speech...
...scored sixteen points,” Barrett said. “That’s really good. That’s what he does as captain; he scores the points, and we feed off his example...