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...were different in Quincy dining hall: Students were counting cards instead of carbs. Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business put down their résumés and picked up poker chips. The reason? A blackjack tutorial taught by Bill B. Kaplan ’77, the founder of the MIT blackjack team that inspired the book “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21,” and David A. Irvine, a former member of the team. “21” has received heavy media attention for using mostly Caucasian...
...behalf, did not specify what her specific role in the ceremony will be, but told The Crimson that President Faust would be “part of the program.” The ROTC program, which serves Harvard students in association with the battalion at nearby MIT, is a worthy one, and therefore President Faust should be commended for choosing to take part in the ceremony. The members of Harvard’s undergraduate community who take part in ROTC are admirable members of our College, who face service after graduation bravely and steadfastly. Particularly in these politically uncertain times...
...about Irvine and Kaplan as the audience filed in. To open the night, WIB played a clip from HBO’s Real Sports series showing Irvine plying his craft. When it finished, Irvine took the stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza...
Harvard isn’t the only MBA program seeing a boom in applicants. On the application-editing Web site Accepted.com, Jennifer B. Barba, the assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, said that the school’s applications had increased by about 30 percent...
...have the perfect race.”After the start, Princeton jumped out to a quick lead, using the race’s first 20 strokes to put a comfortable half-length margin between itself and the trailing Crimson. In the early going, Harvard sat nearly even with MIT. At the 500-meter mark, the Tigers held a six-seat advantage over the Crimson. Coxswain Joe Lin called out an early move to keep Harvard close, urging his boat to push back on Princeton as both crews headed toward the halfway point. Harvard used the second 500 to methodically slash...