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Since public-health officials want to save lives, they focus on the thousands and avoid the NNT. Since pharmaceutical companies are in business to sell drugs, they do the same. Those two forces have kept NNT from being a big part of medical education. We could all help change that by doing nothing more than asking for the number up front the next time we're handed a prescription...
With six games remaining in the league season, the question for a Harvard squad coming off yet another wrenching loss to the Tigers--the second double-overtime defeat at Jadwin Gym in the last four years--is whether the team can avoid a repeat of last year’s post-Princeton dissolution. The circumstances this year are slightly different, of course. In 2006, the squad blew a last-minute lead at home to fall on a buzzer-beater in the final second, which lead to a string of six more losses, a swoon that served as the emblem...
Harvard needs to learn from history and avoid replacing one academic fad with another. The Task Force’s focus on “today’s issues” is just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes...
After getting swept for the sixteenth consecutive year on its annual Princeton-Penn roadtrip, the Harvard men’s basketball team travels to Brown and Yale this weekend hoping to avoid recent history...
...Bulldogs also have done very well against the Crimson recently. They swept Harvard last year, and, having already won at Lavietes Pavilion, needs only to win on Saturday at the John J. Lee Amphitheatre to complete the season sweep. The Crimson faces a daunting task if it wants to avoid an oh-for against its rival for the second consecutive season. Lee Amphitheatre may be the most difficult place to play in the Ivy League, thanks to its acoustics and the swarms of loud students packed very close to the court. Harvard has not won at that arena since...