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...about what makes this novel great. It shows in exquisite and often painful detail how our adult personalities are shaped by our own choices (which may not be as free as we think they are) and by powerful forces beyond our control. Maugham has a remarkable ability??to evoke a vivid, realistic world with seemingly simple prose. Warning: not a happy fun book...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring Break Reading | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard has the ability??the financial ability??to do right in a way and to a degree that no other university can,” he said. “But it doesn?...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matory To Join Duke Faculty | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

Most concentrations at the College only grant one or two pass-fail concentration credits, with few exceptions. This allows little opportunity for academic exploration, despite the advantages it would bring. The ability??and desire—to pursue studies in unknown or challenging areas is fundamental to creating the broad and inquisitive perspective necessary for genuine scholarship. Indeed, this is the goal of a liberal arts education, “an education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility,” as the Task Force on General Education...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: Mission Failure | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...because most teams have solid players.” Goffredo is undoubtedly Harvard’s most solid shooter, and thus far, has proven to be the team’s one consistent threat from beyond the arc, ranking second in the Ivy League with 26 threes. Big-game ability??in addition to last weekend’s outburst, Goffredo notched two 30-point games last season—makes him a threat to win a game for the Crimson on any given night. Given the Ivy League’s dependence upon the long-range shot, coupled...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Captain On Fire, Sinks Long Island | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh Narayanamurti. “The unique architecture that combines performance with scalability in a tremendously efficient power and floor space design,” is what makes the system special, Sircar wrote in an e-mail. The CrimsonGridBGL’s enormous processing ability??4,096 processors performing 11 trillion floating-point calculations per second, using five times less power than a traditional computer cluster with the same capability—will enable it to perform complicated simulations. “There are natural phenomena and processes which cannot be studied by direct...

Author: By Alexandra A Mushegian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets One of World’s Top Supercomputers | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

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