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Yale A. Zeller '10 and Benjamin P. Schwartz '10 were just two of the eager people on set early Saturday morning in exchange for $100 and the chance to see one of Hollywood’s brightest stars in action...
...more. The magic of capitalism turns our individual greed into general prosperity. But maybe an especially virulent strain of greed is spreading, something like bird flu. Maybe this is a greed so profound that it blinds its victims to their obvious self-interest. Maybe this greed can turn the brightest men into fools. It's hard to think of any other explanation...
...selective than the top Ivy League schools. About 250,000 Indian students take the first screening exam for a spot at an IIT; 100,000 make it to the next round; but only 4,000 are eventually selected. Even if they could make the cut at IIT, however, the brightest young American students are less likely now than they were a generation ago to choose engineering. The number of engineering grads in the U.S. peaked in 1986 at close to 80,000, and has fallen to about 70,000 now. "Engineering has played second fiddle to other professions...
From his experiences during the war, Halberstam wrote what is considered one of his greatest works, “The Best and the Brightest.” More than 20 books followed, with his most recent, “The Coldest Winter,” a book about the Korean war, due out this upcoming fall...
...Harvard hospitals. But perhaps most exciting, the opportunity to teach and inspire Harvard undergraduates to think about problems of public health nationally and globally would be an exciting extension of our faculty’s commitment to education at all levels and would open new worlds to the brightest young people on the planet...