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...again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name, and, sure, Einstein studied there. On the court, however, Caltech is light-years away from a championship...
Herbie Hancock, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, has been selected as the Cultural Rhythms 2008 Artist of the Year, according to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which sponsors the event. Hancock will be honored at the 23rd Annual Cultural Rhythms event this Saturday, which the Foundation says will feature some 30 student musical and dance performances over two shows. He will receive the Artist of the Year award at the opening show in Sanders Theatre. Hancock has had a long and legendary musical career, recently capped by an Album of the Year Grammy Award...
...first across the line for the Crimson in the 10K classic. Mangan earned the 29th position and 22 points with a time of 32:30.8. Freshman Alyssa Devlin finished less than seven seconds later and two spots behind, contributing 21 points. Devlin added another 25 as she placed 23rd in the women’s 5K freestyle. Mangan and junior captain Anna Schulz landed the 31st and 44th spots, respectively, and combined to tally 39. Co-captain Oliver Burruss had a standout performance in his last runs in a Crimson uniform. As Harvard’s first finisher in both...
...January 23rd, nobody had heard of Jérôme Kerviel. He was just another junior trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. A day later, his name headlined nearly every major financial daily across the globe. Although his desk was limited to about $180 million in positions, Kerviel had forged passwords, faked control e-mails, and fabricated hedges in order to go well beyond the limit. He had learned all the necessary control tricks to pull off this feat during his time at the bank?...
...time of 1:17.13 in the same event, notching a 12th place finish. But the Crimson women found their greatest successes in the 5000 meter, filling out four of the top 25 spots. Freshman Meghan Houser finished 25th with a time of 18:00.57, while sophomore Stacy Carlson placed 23rd with a 17:52.79 finish, and senior Sarah Bourne posted a 16th place time of 17:36.15. Freshman Claire Richardson’s 17:30.19 finish placed her 13th and qualified her for the ECAC Championships. “That’s a huge thing to qualify for ECAC...