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...culling the underachievers. If you know you will be expelled if you don’t pull a 250th in that Core, you will start working hard. By cutting out the lazy, we would make Harvard a more prestigious University, where people do their best work, or as the weakest link, they leave—goodbye. But why stop there...
...Traditionally our weakest squad is sabre, and seeing them improve was a high note,” Schmidt said. “Epee did a consistently good job. They were undefeated on a squad-by-squad basis...
...though individuals were surely impressive. Saturday’s victory, like all the others in this legendary season, was the product of Harvard’s gritty teamwork and resolute determination that no player (quite literally) let the side down. Anne Robinson’s quest to find the weakest link would surely have foundered on the Crimson’s sidelines...
Though Harvard finished behind Penn in the Ivy standings, the scenario won’t necessarily repeat itself in the NCAA tournament. The key indicator is that Harvard played the toughest nonconference schedule in the Ivies, while Penn’s was among the weakest...
...Taliban is strongest where U.S. intelligence is weakest: in the bazaars, mosques and teahouses of Afghanistan. It has thousands of informers inherited from KHAD--the feared secret police of the former Afghan communist regime--working alongside Muslim clerics in nearly every Afghan village. And it has no monolithic central headquarters that can be taken out with a missile. "The Taliban's command-and-control center," says a foreign diplomat, "is two mullahs sitting on a rug with a radio transmitter...