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When he entered Harvard, he had scored a two on the Calculus AP exam, failed a French placement test, and was unsure of the difference between derivative and partial derivative notation, but Steven Levitt ’89, author of New York Times best-seller Freakonomics, has come a long way from his undergraduate days...
...Canfield used the Eliot woodshop to make the cribs for his twins. Oh, and there's the ghost of Charles Eliot, who is said to help any student with p-sets if asked nicely. We're not quite sure, though, whether he knows multivariable calculus...
Strapped consumers have long prioritized paying their mortgage before their credit cards. Losing your house, after all, was seen as worse than losing the ability to spend more than what was in your bank account. But falling housing prices, loan-modification programs and restricted credit have changed the calculus of what debts get paid first for many Americans. What's more, the recent credit-card reforms might make it more attractive for more consumers to put their credit cards before their home loan...
Still, President Obama has admitted that the domestic political calculus on both sides of the divide has blocked progress toward realizing a two-state solution. But if his efforts are to bear any fruit, Obama and his international partners will have to change the cost-benefit analysis for the Israelis and Palestinians by raising both the inducements to act and the consequences of inaction. As long as the status quo remains more politically comfortable than the alternative, there's no reason to expect any progress...
Apple could also look to buy a blogging upstart like Tumblr or Posterous. Both are so easy to use that they make iWeb's instructions feel like a calculus textbook. Posterous lets anyone create and add to a blog by e-mail - you can post pictures, audio and videos just by adding attachments. When asked if he could envision partnering with his former employer at some point, Posterous founder Agarwal says, "I think Apple would be a great acquirer for Posterous." (See the best travel gadgets...