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...smartest and richest investors around have now joined the battle. At the end of a presentation on Kleiner Perkins' green-tech initiative at this year's TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, an invitation-only gathering of global thinkers, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr silenced his audience when he briefly broke down, pondering the future his 15-year-old daughter would face if nothing were done to stop climate change. "We face irreversible and catastrophic consequences," Doerr said. "We must act and we must act decisively." Investors like Doerr have financed revolutions before. Let's hope they spark another...
...performing at Hilles Library or the Cambridge Queen’s Head. The jazz aficionado’s journey towards math wasn’t as simple. Miller originally wanted a career as a professional musician, but planned to concentrate in economics to avoid becoming “a broke professional musician.” But an unpleasant experience in Calculus BC led him to abandon those plans, and Miller vowed to “never touch math again.” Then Miller took Math 1b his sophomore year, where a course assistant encouraged him to concentrate in mathematics...
...inflation and terrorism, he easily scored the most lopsided victory in the country's modern history. He ran for a third term in 2000 and won, but the elections were largely seen as fraudulent and his new term ended almost as soon as it began when a corruption scandal broke in September of that year...
...holiday. The menorah lighting has become an annual event, with professors participating on each night. This year law professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard’s first Jewish president, have also participated in the lighting ceremony. At the end of the lighting, the group broke out into a Hebrew song. And when a member of the crowd requested a song in English, the revelry continued with, “I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay.” Friday’s ceremony represents a significant shift from Harvard?...
...have been some known threat that affected both organizations? At New Life, the security guard who killed Murray had been stationed in the church's central Rotunda as part of an evacuation-and-defense plan that the church's head of security implemented when news of the YWAM shooting broke. But rather than indicating a deeper connection between YWAM and New Life, Boyd said that the enhanced security was simply a precaution. "That's the reality of our world," he said on Monday. "I don't think any of us grew up in churches where that was the reality...