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...does one select a successful topic?” you ask. There are three questions to keep in mind. Is your topic extremely obscure? Does it have a colon in its title? Did you request and receive an obscene amount of grant money to do research and then blow most of it at a strip club in Paris? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department’s gliteratti is autograph request-inducing, though...
...find Shapin in the lounge on the 3rd floor of the new wing of the Science Center, lurking around the sandwiches and muffins. The concentration also throws a Christmas party at the Sheraton Commander, white wine included. And while the department does require a senior thesis, it softens the blow with a few champagne receptions.The History of Science department has quite a few faculty superstars. After a leave of absence last year due to illness, Everett I. Mendelsohn—a History of Science fixture for 45 years—has returned to teach a junior seminar (History of Science...
...hasn't elected a Democrat since Al Gore represented it. And Ford, facing a millionaire opponent named Bob Corker, couldn't have been happy seeing Chafee win; now the Democrats will have to spend money that could have gone to Ford's campaign trying to give Chafee the knockout blow that Laffey couldn?t deliver...
...Press Supervisory Board, which includes representatives from various branches of government, ordered the shutdown, informing the newspaper that it faced at least 70 official complaints. The closure is a heavy blow to the reformist opposition against Ahmadinejad's government at a time when its policies grow more controversial, and its public support more uncertain. In recent weeks, the government has threatened critics with "legal action," and rounded up illegal satellite dishes that provide access to outside news channels popular among millions of Iranians. The banning of Shargh, Atrianfar explained, reflects the government hostility toward any form of political opposition...
...that fortress of secrecy can crumble, fast, when you combine a hit to your popularity (Iraq, Matt Lauer) with a blow to your power (from the Judicial Branch, from Sumner Redstone). Suddenly the public that supported you over the nosy press wants answers. Suddenly you need access to the media more than the media needs access to you. And suddenly, why, your life is an open book...