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Zuckerberg’s roommate Christopher R. Hughes ’06, who also helps administrate the thefacebook.com, said he does not view FaceNet as a competitor...
...festivities, now in their fourth year, consist of a pie-eating contest and a highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest?...
...They maintain that contemporary Russia's mix of authoritarianism and democracy, its nationalist disposition and even its levels of corruption and criminality put in very much on a par with states of equivalent economic status. Russia's strategic nuclear missile fleet may have once made it a geopolitical competitor to the U.S. but by economic measure, its peers would be the likes of Mexico and Argentina. Its UN Security Council veto power may have given it equal importance to Germany and France in the European camp opposing the war in Iraq, but it remains an economic minnow by European standards...
...We’re here to celebrate his life,” Fonseca’s uncle, Eulises Chacón, said, “the life of Deuce—the scholar, the roommate, the housemate, the deejay, the director, the spelling bee competitor, the kid who read 106 books in the sixth grade...
...Lane] was obviously in the zone,” junior Jonathan Chu said. “[Turner] is one of our toughest competitors, if not the toughest competitor on the team, and the guy he played was on fire. It’s one of those days [where] you just try to win with the hand you’re dealt, and it was unfortunate for him to run into a guy who was just playing unbelievably...