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...certainly does not guarantee victory. Just ask sophomore Holly Cao and freshman Hideko Tachibana, who competed in a Crimson-clad final in the Flight A women’s tennis championship at the William and Mary Invitational over the weekend. After a string of tough matches against a variety of highly-ranked opponents, the athletes faced one another for the title. Tachibana emerged as the victor, defeating Cao, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.However, this was ultimately a team victory for Harvard. Cao and Tachibana showed that they could fill the shoes of graduates Beier Ko and Laura Peterzan...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young Talent Finds Early-Season Success | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...idea that hysteresis happens to economies is one that economists don't like to think about. They prefer to consider economies as yo-yos tethered to the sturdy string of the business cycle, moving up and down from growth to slowdown and back. But from time to time, things do snap. And Summers' argument in 1986 was that unemployment in Europe, the sort that might persist in the face of growth, was an expression of an economy that had snapped. Europe's economy was hit not only by shocks like an oil-price spike, a productivity collapse and rocketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...says, “And small kitchens. Sometimes you see a fork and you just want to die. There is no limit to the beauty of things.” What might seem overblown out of context is actually the ardent crescendo at the end of a string of meditations. The lull of this rising and falling of register is at times almost powerful enough to obscure the story. Hoffmann marries, has children, comes to love Japanese culture, and eventually becomes a professor, writing all the while. The different planes of the story—Rabbi Kook Street in Ramat...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Moving Pseudomemoir | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...intro is marked by an emphasis on the off-beat. The drums, entering in the in the second verse, match the syncopation of the acoustic guitar perfectly, as the electric guitar pronounces the off-beats. A piano nonchalantly doodles a jazz riff. On top of all this is a string quartet that serves to double the melody and also support it with fugal harmonies. All of these elements come together and create a balanced song, at once energetic and easy on the ears. The choice of “Heartbeat Radio” as the title track seems an appropriate...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sondre Lerche | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...during] its very first year.”Further postgraduate endeavors led Cutler to produce “The War Room”—a documentary directed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign—followed by a string of other producing credits, including “Thin,” a 2006 documentary focusing on the rehabilitation of women with life-threatening eating disorders. While the production of a magazine hawking $4,000 wool coats may seem like something of a departure from Cutler’s more...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Depths of Wintour | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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