Word: california
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Sorensen will fill the position vacated this past summer by developmental psychologist Anne Colby, who departed the Murray Center after 18 years at Radcliffe. Colby currently serves as a senior scholar at the California-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Sorensen's hiring makes one fewer vacant post for Fay House to fill, as the Radcliffe administration seeks replacements for Vice President for Finance and Administration Nancy Dun and Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin. Both departed Radcliffe in the last month...
Although it didn't have to battle the elements of winter in Hawaii and California, the Harvard wrestling team got plenty of opportunity to battle opponents on the mats. Harvard competed twice during break, first at the Aloha Classic and then at Stanford. The team wrapped up the trip with mixed results, going a disappointing 2-2 at the Classic but ending with a commanding 22-12 victory over the Cardinal...
...shorthand for "the projects"), the brainchild of Eddie Murphy and perhaps the riskiest of Fox's new cartoon ventures. Murphy sold Imagine on his idea two years ago. The result is a visual tour de force. The puppeteers of the Will Vinton Studios, best known for the California Raisins, have created a colorful 3-D universe of intricately animated clay figures expressive enough to almost pop off the screen. Making sure they land in viewers' hearts is the mission of a writing staff led by executive producers Larry Wilmore and Steve Tompkins (two former stand-ups who met while writing...
...demanding, irritating, Craig Venter has a knack for making the rest of the world run at Venter speed. "I've always felt in a hurry to get things accomplished," he cheerfully confesses. He is in constant motion--lecturing in Europe, raising money on Wall Street, opening satellite centers in California. The closest he comes to relaxing is sailing on his 82-ft. sloop, the Sorcerer. Even that's a challenge. "He seldom goes for a day sail," says his wife Claire Fraser, a noted molecular biologist. "When he goes sailing, he's got to cross oceans...
Right behind Dartmouth is Cornell. The Big Red has lost three of its last four games but has not played since a Dec. 23 loss at St. Mary's in California...