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...women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50˘ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally in both tests, but on the third round, when asked to choose which of the two ways they wanted to play, only...
Batten down the hatches—the world’s best squash players will arrive at Harvard this weekend for the 2005 U.S. Open Squash Tournament. It’s the first time that the Open, which will take place at the Crimson’s Murr Center Nov. 4-8, will be held at Harvard. It has taken place at Boston’s Symphony Hall for the past three years. The Harvard squash teams’ traditional home in the Murr Center now includes the 13 glass-backed courts and one four-sided glass feature court...
...have agreed on a slew of economic projects, including the reopening of rail links by year's end. Sports and cultural exchanges are multiplying as well-in August, a top South Korean pop star performed in Pyongyang and a group of women pro-golfers from the South played a tournament on a North Korean course where official legend holds that the Dear Leader once shot five hole-in-ones in a single round. Every day, hundreds of South Koreans visit a tourism enclave on North Korea's scenic east coast, and new tourism ventures are in the works...
...recent evening, while comfortably ensconced at dinner in the Pforzheimer House dining hall, something—a name, a memory, a vision—caught my eye. On the far wall, facing me, hung the illustrated bracket for the House Scrabble Tournament, with each participant designated by first initial and last name. Towards the bottom was the appellation “M. Simon.” I now know this to be the entry of a forgiving young lady called Maya, but at the time I could scarcely help but lapse into a daydream about former Arizona Wildcats shooting guard...
Stephanie Schnitter became the latest member of the women’s tennis team to collect a tournament title on Monday, as the sophomore no. 1 seed claimed the singles crown at the Big Green Invitational in Hanover, NH with a 6-3, 6-4 win over no. 2 Andreea Novaceanu of Buffalo. Schnitter is the first Harvard woman to win the Big Green Invitational since the tournament’s beginning three years ago, and she did so by steamrolling the field without dropping a single set. Her win is the third major victory and first singles triumph...