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...good thing about aiming to get younger faculty is that if you bet on the right faculty, you get them at the peak of their productivity,” says Deanna Dalrymple, department administrator of the history of art and architecture department...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty 2.0: Revitalizing the Face of the Faculty | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...healthy again and able to train, Sprague has the potential to emerge as one of the dominant skiers in the region next winter. Given how she responded to her first major injury, one shouldn’t bet against...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COMEBACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Junior Returns with Stellar Race | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...willing to bet that life has been rough for Adam B. Wheeler over the past few days, what with all the scandal about his scam that got him a spot at Harvard. But along with the national media frenzy and widespread condemnation of Wheeler, here at Harvard a few individuals have taken up his cause—or have they...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get an Adam Wheeler T-Shirt! | 5/21/2010 | See Source »

Braimah’s parents—immigrants from Nigeria—had long wanted their Brooklyn-born daughter to go into medicine. In her parents’ minds, becoming a doctor “is a sure bet at being successful...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking a Practical Education | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

...perhaps most important sections of this legislation will focus on derivatives trading. Derivatives, financial instruments that are used to bet on movements of assets and thus serve as protections against risk, are often necessary for many different kinds of businesses, ranging from farms to airlines to banks. Yet during the crisis, banks took enormous risks with derivatives, and these risks were neither monitored nor regulated by the government as most of the derivatives were traded in over-the-counter transactions, private trades between two parties...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Financial Follies | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

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