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...hard data and macrovariables, but our new employee pamphlets told us that investment banking is really all about people...people investing in banks. Mankiw talks a big game, but we doubt he’s ever wiped down an ATM after hours. And here’s a sneak peak of the future that not even Amartya Sen can provide: it really is full of pneumatic tubes and you’ll never have to leave your car to do investment banking again. As the summer went on, the negative stereotypes that we had formed at Harvard continued to crumble...
...senior midfielder Amy Stopford led the Duke charge with a hat trick. Harvard was able to hold off the Blue Devils for the first 11 minutes of the game, thanks to the continued defensive adroitness of sophomore goalie Kelly Knoche. After a pair of close shots, Duke managed to sneak one between the pipes and gain the 1-0 advantage. Only three minutes later the Blue Devils turned up the heat. Stopford collected the ball during a penalty corner and banged in Duke’s second goal. The Crimson earned its own penalty corner in the last third...
...Awesome. For the most part, though, Yale students seem just as determined as their Harvard counterparts to elevate their BACs before watching I-AA college football. “All that will happen is that people will pregame more heavily and then possibly try to sneak alcohol in to the stadium,” says Kevin E. Brown, a Yale freshman. “I just cant see this helping in any way.” But in spite of their bitching and moaning, some Yale students remain optimistic. “Yale kids are going to have...
...have motivated young men to increase their combat skills. He wrote that even Islam, which prohibits gambling, has made exceptions for betting on horse races as a way to spur, as it were, youths to become better horsemen and warriors. Some educators leverage the game's current popularity to sneak in their lessons. Emory University math professor Ronald Gould, for example, teaches his freshmen students basic concepts of probability using five-card stud, or for more challenging computations, a seven-card game like Texas Hold...
...voters oust even lawmakers who don't seem vulnerable and political icons lose to underfunded unknowns. In 1948 there was widespread disappointment with the Republican-held "do nothing" Congress. It turned out to be an easy target for President Truman's Democrats, who retook both chambers. Such waves can sneak up. In September 1994 a Congressional Quarterly columnist, voicing the conventional wisdom of the time, wrote that the G.O.P.'s chances of taking the House were "dim." Two months later, Newt Gingrich and company capitalized on disaffection with the Democrats that peaked on Election Day and pulverized the Dems' Capitol...