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...hitting percentage, and zero errors.“She’s extremely strong at the net,” Trimble said of Mays, “She uses her height to her advantage.”ARMY 3, HARVARD 0Harvard started the weekend off on the wrong foot, losing to the Black Knights in straight games, 30-24, 30-28, 30-24.Trimble noted that the Crimson lacked the energy on the court that had been displayed the previous weekend while hosting the Harvard Invitational, and Mahon mentioned that the Crimson may have been unprepared for the level of play exhibited...
There is no course at Harvard that will teach you how to win a war. But if your career ambition is to become the next Eisenhower then you’ve probably come to the wrong place...
...course, experts are loath to accept their fallibility, and, since Burgess published his study in 1928, dozens of studies have set out to prove Burgess wrong, only to find that his insights generally hold true: crude formulas are better than personal interviews for nearly everything, from admitting college students to deciding who should undergo electroshock therapy...
...clear yet what exactly McLaren did wrong. (The WMSC is set to publish its findings Friday.) But it emerged in July that Mike Coughlan, McLaren's now suspended chief designer, had obtained almost 800 pages of secret documents on Ferrari's racecar. The documents, Ferrari says, came from Nigel Stepney, its since sacked performance director, who denies the charge. At a hearing later that month, the WMSC found McLaren guilty of fraudulent conduct. But without sufficient evidence that the team benefited from the leaked data, McLaren escaped any penalty. New evidence, presented to the WMSC at Thursday's hearing, reportedly...
...1960s, the Netherlands discovered huge deposits of natural gas in the North Sea. A windfall, right? Wrong. The discovery effectively hobbled Dutch industry, since any surge in revenue from natural resources - or from foreign aid, for that matter - tends to drive up exchange rates, making exports less internationally competitive. But thriving export industries, Collier argues, are precisely the reason for Asia's dramatic economic rise. They are also what Africa will need to develop in order to follow the same trajectory. Collier's idea seems to be sinking in: last month, the large international aid organization CARE announced that...