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...aggressive, running style that catapulted Harvard to its first win under new head coach Tommy Amaker—an impressive 90-60 throttling of Northwestern State.“We’re hopeful to build on it,” Amaker said. “I think confidence-wise, spirit-wise, and psychologically, this is big for us to get our first win, and not only to win, but to play well.” Lin was one of three Crimson players to post career highs in the matchup of the tournament’s two winless squads. Junior...
...beauty was more than half the point. The specimens were prizes, to be sure, shown off to friends and rival collectors, but they were also, in their mysterious affinities and variations, clues to the overarching design of Nature, "the plan of the creation itself, the work of an all-wise, all-powerful deity," wrote William the son, who knew and influenced Charles Darwin but disagreed with him about God. Stacey's own long contemplation of the collections made her "constantly think how fantastic Nature is, how symmetrical it is," she says. "It's quite beyond comprehension that everything could...
...book “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century” gives a revolutionary clarity to the history of classical music in America, and shows the world that a senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate it, and if the book is complex, write about it in the simplest terms possible. Like Joyce, modern classical music, with its clashing harmonies...
...DESIGN OF FUTURE THINGS, he turns to technology on the cusp of invention--smart homes, cars that drive themselves--and finds big problems brewing. Making machines ever quieter may seem wise, for instance, but then they lack audible cues to help people know something is happening. Faced with silence, we often grow frustrated and start over. Better to use natural and intuitive signals. Consider vibrations in a car seat instead of yet another blinking light on the dash to let you know you're drifting across lanes. It's technology that gets psychology...
...know whether I like that,” Jason S. Lim ’10 said. “I don’t know of many people who would friend Coca-Cola for some strange reason.” Other students feel the move is wise from a financial perspective. “It makes sense. Over the last year, I’d say Facebook has done a very good job of building traffic,” said S. Travis Mae ’09, the co-president of the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum...