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...data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential. “Embracing uncertainty” and abandoning mathematical models, while assuming that human behavior isn’t even “remotely predictable” is wrong-headed...
Witnesses told USA Today that Lagakos had been “driving like a man on fire” shortly before the accident. According to observers, after speeding on Route 202 in order to pass a car, Lagakos’ car swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a Chevy Malibu driven by Stephen Krause. The collision killed both drivers, as well as two family members traveling with Lagakos, according to a Boston Globe article published Tuesday...
...Harvard is such an environment of driven, ambitious people who are goal-oriented, who have a similar goal of success—either at school or in life,” Rounds says. As a result, she says, students are often reluctant to show when they are not successful at a particular extracurricular or academic endeavour, however that success may be defined...
...know what you’re getting,” says producer Kevin J. Davies ’10, “the plot is not as important as the spectacle.” “The Untitled Project,” on the other hand, is driven almost entirely by the text—because its aim is not to merely tell a story but also to create a relationship...
Bendorf is a theatrical powerhouse by any standards. Not many undergraduates, even the most artistically driven, can say they’ve performed in nine theatrical productions, assisted with another 18, and even directed one—all while being a member of the Radcliffe Pitches, VoxJaxx, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP), and other performance-minded campus groups. This spring, alongside Jordan A. Reddout ’10, Bendorf has been awarded the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize, which recognizes students with outstanding talent and enthusiasm for musical theater...