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Scott Griffith 48, Boston CLAIM TO FAME As CEO and president of Zipcar, the country's largest car sharing service, Griffith has made self-service, on-demand rental cars a mainstream amenity in 10 states and 29 cities, changing the way urban dwellers view owning a car and how much they drive. "We're trying to make getting a car as easy as getting cash from an ATM," he says. Each of Griffith's cars takes 20 privately owned vehicles off the road, reducing urban congestion, emissions and parking demand. Zipcar's 50,000 members (almost 40% of whom have...
...factors that lay claim to making the Harvard undergraduate education great, the only one that seems to be universally agreed upon by undergraduates is the quality of the people here and the opportunities to learn from one’s peers that result. In recent months, a number of new initiatives have emerged, from both University Hall and students, that seek to capitalize on this power of peer learning and collaboration to tackle age-old issues—advising, diversity, communication between student organizations, and campus community, to name a few. While these kinds of peer collaboration...
...find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...least 23 people and two days after the release of an Osama bin Laden audiotape urging attacks on Western civilians in defense of the Palestinians, among others. All three events show the growing distance between the "global jihadists" of al-Qaeda and the local constituencies on whose behalf they claim to be fighting...
...this claim was refuted by documents obtained by The Crimson regarding the planning of Flynt’s visit...