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Most Embarrassing Harvard Moment: Life here is full of awkward moments so it’s hard to choose...
Faulkner-Bond described the Fifteen Hottest process as “very surreal”—she says was still hungover when she received the notification e-mail. Though she describes the photo shoot as “awkward,” she says and her fellow chosen ones breathed a sigh of relief when Mikal N. Floyd-Pruitt ’06 began hamming it up to break...
...Faculty’s vote seemed likely to diminish Summers’ stature at Harvard and threaten his ability to lead the University. But as the practical effects of the no-confidence motion remained unclear, Summers and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appeared stuck in an awkward limbo...
Yahoo!'s Apprentice victory broke new ground in the awkward relationship between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Internet companies have long wanted to put entertainment content online, but fear of piracy, illegal downloading and disruption of their revenue model have so far made the studios hold on tightly to their product. Semel, who was brought in to run Yahoo! after 30 years in Hollywood, is determined to change that. In November he hired Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment who greenlighted shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost and earlier helped develop The Sopranos for HBO, to head...
George Bush starts many of his Social Security roundtable conversations with the same awkward moment. He asks an economist to explain why the retirement system is in crisis and then interrupts him. "It's an interesting lesson here, by the way," said the President last Thursday of the Ph.D. sitting with him on stage. "He's an advisor. Now, he is the Ph.D., and I am a C-student-or was a C-student. Now, what's that tell...