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...Marquette’s words, Lamont is a "social nexus," and the Mather gorilla is "not unusual at all." But her high school charges are more likely to remember a different aspect of their visit: The alum who kindly lets them know, for good measure, that they probably won't get in. Nothing like a little encouragement. More on Scarlet and "Harvard hotties" after the jump...
Jason Segel, another Freaks and Geeks alum, says Apatow told him he was too weird to get cast in roles he didn't write for himself, so Segel turned his own breakup into Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Years earlier, on the Freaks set, Apatow instructed Segel to write the sad love song his character was supposed to sing and play on guitar. "This was Wednesday, and we're going to film on Friday," says Segel. "I said, 'But Judd, I don't know how to play guitar.' He said, 'You have until Friday. You'll figure it out.' " And Segel...
...think we have a group of guys right now who are younger, more inexperienced guys." Said Will Venable, Padres right fielder and Princeton alum. “You know, I look around and it’s all guys I played with in the minor leagues. But I think it’s moving in the right direction...
...American Summer generated a cult following. But the comedian is probably most recognizable as a snarky commentator on VH1's I Love the '80s nostalgia series. His latest endeavor is the Comedy Central show Michael and Michael Have Issues, which debuts July 15 and co-stars fellow State alum Michael Showalter. TIME talked to Black about his career, tacos and whether or not he really loves the '80s. (See a history of stand-up comedy in pictures...
...every student, faculty member, and alum is aware that the global financial calamity has influenced every component of University finances: endowments, private philanthropy, and gifts from cash-strapped foundations. While stimulus funds have temporarily swelled the budgets of federal science agencies, the long-term picture for government funding is hazy at best, and may fall victim to deficit-cutting two years from now. Within Harvard, the deans and central administrators have had the unenviable task of cutting budgets in order to match our expenses to our newly constrained resources. We have all spent many hours since October engaged in these...