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...people don’t have friends or family in New York.” On Thanksgiving, most businesses and restaurants in the Square were closed. The same went for Harvard’s dining halls, with the exception of Quincy House, which, according to dining checker Lia Fajardo, saw 875 people swipe in for its service of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner...
...attempt to win prestige in the Chinese math community, had them put together a more technically rigorous, and nominally more complete, version of the proof. When he read this account, Yau was outraged. A few weeks later, his lawyer sent a letter to Nasar, Gruber, and the fact-checker who worked on the article asking for immediate assistance “in undoing, to the extent possible, the literally world-wide damage” the story had done to Yau’s reputation. “This is not a matter of mere accusation for the purpose of describing...
Leavitt & Peirce 1316 Massachusetts Avenue (617) 547-0576 Wooden Chinese checker set, $59.95. An expensive way to while away the hours with new friends (who also enjoy Chinese checkers...
...letter sent yesterday from Yau’s attorney, Howard M. Cooper, to the article’s authors and fact-checker charged that “false and defamatory” statements as well as “sensationalized quotes” had “unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time...
Students who ventured up the Quincy dining hall stairs around 7 p.m. on Sunday were welcomed back from spring break not by the smiling face of the card-checker and the enticing aroma of vegetable lasagna, but by the cold, hard bars of a closed metal gate. In a scene that was echoed at Eliot House, which was one of the few upperclass dining halls open the night before College classes resumed, chaos reigned in the servery and in the seating area as students scrambled to get their hands on food and then chairs before either ran out. Apparently...