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...banks, there's little they can do to hedge against the rise and fall of hormones. (Asking after a recruit's age can be a delicate task, let alone his testosterone level.) A handful of major investment banks contacted by TIME all declined to comment on the study. As for the traders, the research is by no means an encouragement to abuse steroids. They're "the most dangerous chemical you can put in your body," says Coates. Doing so would mean "changing your body, your brain, the memories you recall, growth, your mood," he adds. "And they're weird." Gordon...
Change can make all the difference in pitching, whether it’s changing speeds, changing locations, or even changing roles. For captain Shelly Madick and the Crimson softball team, one change—moving Madick from her traditional task as a starter to more of a hybrid starter/closer role—has made batters miss more than any other. Madick, the reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Year and a unanimous First Team All-Ivy pick last season, took some time to hit her stride this season. After a rocky outing against Princeton on March 30, when Madick gave...
Reinstein said that the ACLU has filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act to discover whether Harvard shares the intelligence it gathers with the federal government. Other schools have connections with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), local teams of law enforcement and intelligence specialists formed to investigate terrorism...
...third varsity, freshman eight, and freshman four races. In the second varsity race, Harvard rowed a strong race from start to end to handily defeat the Bears. After a solid start, the Crimson hung with the Brown’s crew through the first 500—no easy task given the Bears’ reputation as fast starters. “Brown basically throws the kitchen sink at you in the first 500, so whenever we race them, they’ve been incredibly aggressive at the start,” Morgan said. “They didn?...
...Pulitzer finalist—and as a political activist. Yet she began her career as a poet, studying under W.H. Auden as a young adult. Here, at the end of her life, Paley makes a final return to poetry, and the medium seems appropriate to her task. In her hands, the ability of poetry to distill itself into one thought or one emotion becomes a powerful tool; her thoughts, stripped of the context or fictitious garnish that would mask them in a short story, become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component of the volume, Paley is still a very...