Word: splitting
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...Knights, Harvard was able to show its potential against ECAC foes as it prepares for the clean slate of the Northern Championships.Although the Crimson could not build on Saturday’s success to break its own nine-game losing streak against the No. 14 Terriers, the weekend split still marked an improvement over recent struggles.With the celebratory mood of Senior Day intact, the Crimson will look to use this enthusiasm to reverse its fortunes in the postseason.ST. FRANCIS 11, HARVARD 3Harvard’s offense proved ineffective in yesterday’s loss to the Terriers. The Crimson held...
...said if they were going to split, it has to be now," the source told...
...amygdala loathes unpredictability of the kind we are currently enduring. Lab experiments with rats and humans show that both species prefer predictable electric shocks over unpredictable shocks. That's because, on a normal day, the brain works by following shortcuts. We recognize patterns in order to make split-second judgments about what we are seeing. Shortcuts are ruthlessly efficient, which is important for an organ that only uses about 40 watts of power per operation. But the more uncertainty we face, the more shortcuts our brains use. And the shortcuts lead to a slew of predictable errors...
...learned at HBS to solve the world’s social problems,” Cohen said. “If we dither and delay in dealing with housing repossession, unemployment, and inflation, then the backlash against capitalism will be serious.” ENTERPRISING NONPROFITSSummit attendees split up in the afternoon to attend interactive classroom sessions on a variety of topics. Business School professors Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard ’74 and Allen S. Grossman moderated a session on the future of social enterprise.Panelist Andrea Silbert ’86, president...
...some veterans of Arizona politics paint a more complicated picture of McCain than as just a crusader against corruption. They talk of bullying and intimidation, of meetings when he banged the table so hard they feared it would split. In one case, recalls former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini, when he refused to fire an aide who had annoyed McCain, "to put it politely, he told me that I could go do something with myself." DeConcini, a Democrat, says that "in my eight years with him, I learned that John just hates it when you disagree with him. If you press...