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...don’t rely on any one person, and I want us to be confident in that aspect of our team.”This win turned out to be a complete team effort, as each of the team’s twelve players saw significant action.In particular, the efforts of junior Dimma Kalu and freshman Liz Altmaier seemed to draw particular excitement from the Crimson bench. One highlight in a relatively dull second half came with Kalu’s first collegiate points, as she hit a runner in the lane with...
...Harvard’s new president. But casting aspersions on President-elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War––more than 4,800 soldiers died on a single day in Antietam––on American life and society is particularly...
...past few months, Gittoes' drawings have portrayed a less particular and more generalized kind of horror. His Exhausted Still Walking, 2006, gives the impression of war as a spiraling, replicating beast. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gittoes has been meeting with Korean animators to help turn his diaries into a graphic novel and feature film. The artist sees this as all part of a larger multimedia project, to be called Night Vision. It was while traveling with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia 14 years ago that Gittoes tried on his first pair of night-vision goggles-complaining in his diary that...
...percent commission on profits—a standard percentage for hedge funds—contingent on its ability to beat various benchmarks. This risky payment plan proved very expensive for Meyer and his team this year. Analysts attribute Convexity’s lower performance to the fact that their particular style of investment, which worked well in previous years, was not a good fit for the market in 2006. Mittelman and Samuels specialize in arbitrage—investing when they noticed temporary gaps in price relationships and then profiting when the prices reconverged. “The fixed income markets...
...There is no particular reason that any university should be the nurse of poets right now,” she said. “Anywhere there is a library there will be poets.” Vendler notes that even William Butler Yeats never went to university but rather educated himself at the British Library...