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...acclaimed debut akin to the Boss’s legendary Born to Run album, Stefanchik burst onto the scene in 2002 with a rookie campaign worthy of second team All-Ivy honors. Thrust immediately into the starting lineup, Stefanchik responded by hitting .365 and swiping 21 bags...
...argues that questions of intent are irrelevant. “You can’t use the argument that it wasn’t intentional. Plagiarism is a strict liability offense,” he says. He suggests academia’s treatment of high-profile professors can be akin to an Orwellian scenario: “Some animals are more equal than others...
...said that 02138 will be a “luxury magazine for Harvard alumni” akin to Vanity Fair. But he pledged that it would also include “the hard-hitting investigative stories of ‘60 Minutes...
Taking a decidedly untraditional route, many teenagers are pursuing an opportunity more akin to the Peace Corps than camp. Gordy Kaplan, executive director of the Midwest Association of Independent Camps, says community-service camps are the hottest development in the field. Particularly popular, other experts say, are those programs in which participants travel to remote parts of the U.S. and to foreign countries to help local populations. Last summer Ryan McNeill, 16, of Lake Forest, Ill., went to Costa Rica with the Road Less Traveled. At a cost of $3,995 for 22 days, McNeill and his group stayed...
...votes? Cannes is the only election I know with a 100% turnover in eligible voters each year. The festival bosses choose nine or 10 distinguished members of the film and literary community to serve. This year's Jury comprises directors Emir Kusturica (President), Fatih Akin, Benoit Jacquot, Agnes Varda and John Woo; actresses Nandita Das and Salma Hayek; actor Javier Bardem; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison...