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...comes as no surprise that with such an impressive background, an amazing passion for the sport, and his strengths as a coach, that Brand received the 2005 Schreff Sword. Along with the award comes a great deal of respect from fellow colleagues, which Brand ultimately suggests is the most honorable aspect of receiving the hardware...
Pring-Wilson did not know Colono at the time he fatally stabbed him, and Quinlan decided that evidence concerning Colono’s background was irrelevant to the case...
...don’t have to be rich, or even well-off, to come to Harvard,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said in a press release. “Harvard can do its part to alter the unacceptable disparity in economic background that characterizes the college-going population nationwide...
...Harvard Business School and a former Rhodes scholar at Oxford. But what made him stand out was not just his brain?it was that he'd grown up in Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," says Udwadia. Four of them offered him jobs. One didn't even wait for him to graduate?the fund's managers gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks in his spare time between classes...
...Supersnoop Bush's choice of John Negroponte as the U.S.'s first Director of National Intelligence is loony [Feb. 28]. Negroponte may have a nice r?sum? and background, but he has no experience in intelligence gathering. Putting someone in charge of intelligence who has no idea what he is doing is like putting up a welcome sign for more terrorist attacks. Long Nghiem Placentia, California...