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...insisted that Harvard investigate them. Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok was appointed to conduct the investigation and found no plagiarism. Neither did James Freedman, the former president of Dartmouth and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Harvard Law librarian concluded that my use of citations was certainly correct. I also would have told the reporter that despite Finkelstein’s implication to the contrary, I cited Joan Peters eight times in my book and disagreed with her conclusions...
...long-standing rival MIT and Binghamton University in the regional round of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s International Collegiate Programming Contest. The 12 teams in the contest were given eight problems to solve within five hours, with the final score based on the number correct and the time it took to solve them. The teams had to come up with solutions to real world problems through the creation of computer programs. One example from this year was quantitatively ranking Supreme Court candidates based on how closely the candidates’ beliefs align with those...
Will politically correct gastronomy save the family farm? That may be wishful thinking. At the University of Portland, the all-local lunch was merely symbolic--Pepsi was back for dinner. What's meatier is that the university, which serves 22,000 meals weekly, has hiked spending on local and regional products to 40% of its food dollars--up from less than 2% five years ago. "Even the burgers are from Oregon steers," boasts dining manager Kirk Mustain...
Economists Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University conducted a study in which they assembled 40 men and 40 women, gave them five minutes to add up as many two-digit numbers as they could, and paid them 50¢ for each correct answer. The subjects were not competing against one another but simply playing against the house. Later, the game was changed to a tournament in which the subjects were divided into teams of two men or two women each. Winning teams got $2 per computation; losers got nothing. Men and women performed equally...
...about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname, "and me Col-bert. It's getting weird...