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...Levitt has spent his career looking for narrow subjects that lend themselves to empirical testing. His standard line is that he's not smart enough for macro. But he's been smart enough to avoid it - and to win, in 2003, the John Bates Clark Medal, an award for the top under-40 American economist that is often the precursor to a Nobel (no, he's not really a "rogue economist"). His work also caught writer Dubner's attention, which led to the 2003 article in the New York Times Magazine that spawned Freakonomics...
...boat barely missed out on a win, finishing just over four tenths of a second behind Princeton—who once again was Harvard’s spoiler—at 14:48.045. The B boat crossed the line...
After the loss, Harvard—which had gained sole control of the Ivy League in its Tuesday win against Yale—will need to win its final regular season games against Dartmouth and Columbia to stay in the title hunt. The Crimson was in the same situation last year after losing its Ivy opener to Penn...
...goal isn’t just to win. It’s to play to your full potential,” Murphy said. “As happy as we are beating a rival, getting a good win, still in control of our own destiny in the league, we still made too many mistakes...
...could’ve played better,” Clark said. “I don’t think we connected a pass in probably 55 minutes. We thought we had to win, and we kind of lost composure to pass the ball. [Princeton] did too, to be honest. It just became an ugly fight...