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After Brogan’s grandfather, the rest of the family’s males joined the CFD—Uncle Willy Friel, two of his brothers, his cousin Ed, maybe a few other uncles. It’s hard to keep track, Brogan says, smiling. The black sheep was one uncle who left CFD for law school...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Fired Up Not for Faint of Hose | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done," famous actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth said. "I am sure that posterity will justify me." During Act III, Scene II of a farce called Our American Cousin, he struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Behind the Legend | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...unlikely to get much faster given that transistors and other components had to be wired together by hand. Enter Kilby, a newly hired engineer at Texas Instruments, who followed a hunch that you could eliminate some of the wires by sticking transistors onto a sliver of germanium--a close cousin of silicon--and etching circuits onto this crystal "chip," which was about half the size of a paper clip. Many of his peers dismissed such a simple solution as naive, and his microchip "provided much of the entertainment at major technical meetings over the next few years," Kilby later wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Jack Kilby | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

During the original trial, lawyers for Pring-Wilson had sought to portray Colono’s stabbing as an act of self-defense. But an important part of that strategy—presenting the allegedly violent past histories of Colono and his cousin, who was also at the scene—was blocked by Quinlan...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pring-Wilson Gets Retrial | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Pring-Wilson, at the time a student at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, had allegedly never met either the 18-year-old Colono or his cousin, Samuel E. Rodriguez, before April...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pring-Wilson Gets Retrial | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

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