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While Harvard's campus may be diverse, and its student body unique, undergraduates all share a common bond--Sesame Street. Who doesn't know the words to "C is For Cookie" or remember Bert teaching his pet pigeon to play checkers...
...Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg...
Their ranks include linguist Bert R. Vaux, who sometimes illustrates his lectures with examples culled from the previous night's sitcoms, John R. Stilgoe, Orchard professor of the history of landscape development, who gives an entire lecture on Coca-Cola advertisements, and History and Literature instructor Stuart M. Semmel, whose class includes British pop music from the decades after World...
...take my advice; Two Mikes falls off in the stretch run, finishing somewhere in the middle of the pack. And I leave the track having blown a good 15 bucks, feeling somewhat empty and slightly used. But late that very night, an interesting bit of news about Bertucci's (BERT), the KSF's other holding, comes to my attention: The company's founder is making an effort to buy a controlling interest in the restaurant chain and he's going to pay $8 a share--28 percent more than we paid...
True to form, BERT jumps $1.50 when trading finally resumes on Tuesday, allowing the KSF to cash out with a sizable profit. And not only does the stock's sale leave me with a net gain over my gambling losses; there might even be enough money in there for a couple CD's as well...