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Summers's colleagues in Washington say that he was a brilliant economic administrator who was critical in the development of the Clinton administration's financial policies. But they say that though Summers is a Democrat, his competence and lack of partisanship have earned him the admiration of Republicans and Democrats alike...
...World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more than the revenue; we will suffer a damaging blow...
DIED. CLAUDE SHANNON, 84, visionary mathematician who pioneered the use of binary code and employed his brilliant theories as practically as a rower would an oar; in Medford, Mass. Initially geared to help the telephone industry use automatically switching circuits, Shannon's work with binary code became the basis for all modern digital communications networks. His later work with chess-playing machines helped create the field of artificial intelligence...
...Ohio--to communicate. The transmission isn't perfect. Lips move. Words lag behind, like a badly dubbed-in translation in a foreign movie. An eerie whistling sound seeps in and out of the audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference is "cool." To her mom, it's "a godsend...
...Harvard for the past two years has been overall a rewarding experience for Wang. "I've worked with Boris Mikhailov. I'm working with Carrie Mae Weems. There're all these different perspectives, all these brilliant people. To be able to work with people like this, to think how they're thinking, is an incredible experience...