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...recent undergrads to hop on the entrepreneurial bandwagon is William M. Ruben ’10. Frustrated with the confusing and overwhelming media coverage of the upcoming presidential elections, Ruben wanted to create a resource to assist “busy Americans and political pundits alike” in making an educated vote, the Quincy resident says...
...easy to dismiss all these stories as college students trying to make an extra buck any way they can. But there are more layers to these narratives than a one-sided view would recognize.Harvard senior D. Zak Tanjeloff ’08 also jumped on the brand marketing bandwagon, but he was representing InternBar, a product of his own creation. Tanjeloff discovered that there were perks to running a bar-crawling group that went beyond being able to pay his rent. “We sort of connected a community together,” he recalls, “which...
...biggest difficulty,” said John P. Huchra, a Harvard cosmology professor who serves as senior adviser to the provost on research policy, “is that if this becomes a bandwagon in Washington, and other agencies are also forced to go with the same kinds of caps on administration and overhead expenses, then it will affect all the research we do that is sponsored by the government...
...only thing trendier in Hollywood than three-week stints in rehab and adopting children from developing nations is advocating for the environment. Celebrities ranging from recent Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 to Leonardo DiCaprio have jumped on the bandwagon, all promoting their own spin on the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the elevated publicity these famous faces bring to this serious issue is beneficial, a great majority of these stars do not live by the standards they promote. Hypocrisy is rampant in today’s environmental movement, and Hollywood...
...were high. Some were skeptical about the size of the crowds and the magnitude of the celebrations. “A true fan stands outside in the cold and suffers for his team,” said Beau C. Robicheaux ’08. “Whereas a bandwagon fan shows up in the ninth inning to pop the champagne.” Nevertheless, the pride of the fans in attendance was obvious. As the revelry of the night reached its apex, Red Sox fans hoisted Papelbon’s jersey on the flagpole of University Hall...