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...head teaching fellow and former student A. Cansu Aydede ’11. The CS50 fair, which took place this year and allowed students to showcase their final projects to the larger community, is evidence of this mission. Malan says that his motivation to broaden CS50’s appeal stems from his own experience with the class when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Originally a government concentrator, he didn’t take CS50 until his sophomore year. “It was reputed even among the geeky circles I was already running with that...
Davis, 41, is keenly aware that much of his bid's appeal - and challenge - lies in his personal narrative. That's why he began his recent talk in Rainbow City, before the audience of a couple of dozen people, with a familiar anecdote. On the day before Easter Sunday, 1977, he tells the audience, his single mother, a high school teacher, brought him to Alabama's state capitol for the first time. He was awed by the place. "I never could have imagined, growing up in West Montgomery, I'd ever have a chance to travel beyond that neighborhood, much...
...Fiji Trouble in Paradise A day after Fiji's court of appeal declared the regime of military chief Frank Bainimarama unlawful, his ally, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, abolished the constitution, sacked Fiji's judges and reinstated Bainimarama as Prime Minister. Bainimarama, who seized power in a 2006 coup, wants to reform a political system he calls racist and corrupt. Critics, however, call him a dictator. Fiji's central bank has devalued its currency 20% to boost exports and tourism amid the turmoil...
...Norm, I like you. You lost. O.K.?' JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC host, on Norm Coleman's plan to appeal a three-judge panel's ruling that opponent Al Franken won 312 more votes in the 2008 Senate race in Minnesota...
...UNICEF and the U.N.'s refugee agency, UNHCR, are airlifting emergency supplies to the island nation over the weekend. The U.S. and France have pledged field hospitals while the European Union has committed $22 million in assistance. But the U.N. last week warned that the response to its emergency appeal in February for $155 million for Sri Lanka had brought in less than a third of that amount by the time thousands of civilians began flooding into refugee camps last week...