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...what of the usual objections to Yale-style housing? According to its critics, the system would undermine the unity of the freshman class by dividing it into Houses before the start of the school year. But is this kind of class unity really a significant part of the undergraduate experience at Harvard? With students sprinkled along the River and as far away as the Quad, class unity ceases to exist after freshman year, anyway. And since freshman dorms would remain in the Yard and freshmen would still eat together in Annenberg, there would be ample opportunity to preserve some kind...
...That preparation came through during those several minutes of danger. After flying at a low altitude with the wing flaps (which are usually used to slow the plane on landing) deployed and the nose pitched up slightly higher than usual-all of which helped burn off unwanted fuel faster-the pilots executed a textbook emergency landing a Los Angeles. They brought the plane in as slow as possible, touched down in the center of the runway, and by holding the sidestick back kept the nosewheel from touching down until the last moment, and then applied the brakes to come...
...West Wing is free to thus sully himself. Even on a show with a feminist premise, it seems, TV is not quite ready to treat powerful women as it treats powerful men. The show's creator, Rod Lurie, probably just meant to make Allen the enemy of politics as usual. But it's a rough message to send to Hillary--or Condi Rice or any other woman who will have to rely on politics as usual, not a contrived TV plot, to become President. And who faces the sexist paradox: if you get ahead in party politics, you must...
...mind. Reputedly Harvards stylish females congregate there, although they have also been observed in enclaves such as Foreign Cultures 22: La critique sociale and English 10b: Major British Writers. In a similar anomaly, there are Core classes whose ratio of athletes to meager physiques is much more advantageous than usual. A casual visitor might be deluded into believing that Harvard students actually keep in shape. No one can explain why each semester Roman Games and Shakespearean Genres are so well-attended by varsity players, though whispers about team-writing term papers do abound...
These days, as usual, Wadhwaney thinks the herd is heading in the wrong direction. For example, although he grew up in Bombay, the center of India's boom, his fund doesn't own a single Indian stock. "People are paying ridiculous prices on promises of the future," he says. Nobody can reliably predict which way the stock market will move or what a company's earnings will be, he argues, so the key is to focus on the present. That means appraising a company's existing assets and buying the stock only if those assets are grossly undervalued. Typically...