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...Township High School outside Chicago, including titles in 2001 and 2002 when she captained the team. Five consecutive Illinois state titles with her AAU team. First-team All-State selection. Nike All-American.“She could shoot, put it on the floor, and she was a very smart player,” recalls Crimson women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who remembers watching Franklin as a high school player and recruiting her to Harvard. “She had everything.” However, like most recruits, Franklin had to adjust to the greater intensity...
...here ‘cause I thought I might find a wife.” While a few dogged interviewees listed the celebration of culture and community as draws to the biggest Shabbat dinner in Harvard history, Adam J. Scheuer ’06 was not alone in his smart-ass sentiment. So many of the students polled by FM offered up some variant of the search to “identify a provider,” as Jack P. McCambridge ’06 put it, that FM had to stop another would-be jokester mid-sentence to preserve...
...Internet service providers, are acting as corporations do and trying to turn a profit. But we the users, Facebook addicts, and literature researchers alike, need to watch carefully to make sure this essential principle doesn’t fall by the wayside. For if the network gets too smart for its own good, who knows what great procrastination tools of the future will never make it to our desks?Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Amazing Allysen from Playmates is a smart doll for the tween set. She's programmed to learn a child's preferences--favorite colors and hobbies, best school chums--and work them into conversation. Armed with a vocabulary of more than 100 words, Allysen speaks in the recorded voice of a real girl. Her ability to process voice commands--a technology that hasn't always worked so well in the past--is supported by sophisticated software, her creators say. The animatronics controlling her face are finely tuned to produce subtle facial expressions that are perfectly suited...
Harvard must lack talented athletes. That’s just the way it’s supposed to be, because if you’re smart, you can’t possibly be good at sports. So next time you hear me or another Harvard sports naysayer complain, don’t argue...