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...received the ball along the left sideline and took it hard to the rim where he finished with a one-handed tomahawk slam...
While most students are hunched over their desks, sweating over Stat 100 psets, a unique group on campus gathers together to investigate issues like the height of slam dunk contestants or Tiger’s return from scandal. Founded in 2006, the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective is a student-run organization with the goal of researching sports strategy and management. “The only difference, I’d say, between us and the average fan is that we test our ideas after we talk about them,” explained co-president David M. Roher...
...argument that better consumer protection will prevent the next collapse is no slam dunk. But better consumer protection is still a good idea! And the CFPA is a clear way to send a message that the economy is supposed to work for ordinary families. We should have a CFPA - and also size restrictions, stricter leverage rules and capital requirements, better regulation of complex derivatives, an orderly mechanism to wind down failing firms without bailouts and all the other elements of financial reform...
...what makes a winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying the same relentlessness to evolve into a women's-tennis power (Chinese...
Ketchum was able to slam home her second goal of the night off a rebound at 15:41, but the real scare came three minutes later when Harvard co-captain Kathryn Farni was sent to the penalty...