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Pollak, who is an avid meat-eater, said Hillel serves "the best hamburgers at Harvard...
...also should remember that Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig was appointed by Federal District Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson to serve as a special master on technical aspects of the current lawsuit. From Microsoft's vociferous legal protests, we know they don't count him as an avid supporter. Though a higher court suspended Lessig's involvement until another hearing later this month. Still, it seems that for such an important issue that will be affecting all of our lives, the volume of debate over Microsoft on campus keeps getting softer while the steady "ka-ching" of Microsoft money flowing...
...addition to information systems, Millennium has been an avid proponent of automation, such as the techniques of combinatorial chemistry employed by Vertex...
...country into the Web. In 1993 his company brought the Internet to West Africa, and in 1995 Ghana became the second sub-Saharan nation to have full connectivity. "We're sharing the same information as everyone else in the world," says Quaynor. His most prized client: President Rawlings, an avid Web surfer. Soon, Quaynor hopes, wireless technology will let the phone-short country leap straight into airborne access
...fiery ex-Marine and an avid mountain climber, Hugh McColl Jr. has scaled the Swiss Alps and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But his loftiest goal is to lead NationsBank, the Charlotte, N.C., company he has run since 1983, to the summit of American banking. Through more than 50 acquisitions, McColl has turned NationsBank into the third largest U.S. lender (behind Chase Manhattan and Citicorp), with branches in 16 states and $316 billion in assets. And NationsBank stock, which has swelled to $65 billion in total value, makes the bank No. 1 in market capital. "In most of life's endeavors...