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Volonnino chose to give the Cornell Big Red hockey team, or at least their fans, some bulletin board material. He insulted Cornell fans and their manner of cheering for their team—particularly at Harvard's home rink. As much as Volonnino vents his disgust for Cornell, he only mentions in passing his anger at Harvard for allowing such a situation to happen...
...Keyes came to Harvard on the advice of Bloom, his mentor who left Cornell in disgust himself after the takeover. By the time Keyes arrived in Cambridge--after spending a year in Paris--the heyday of activism had passed. "The whole nature of the situation had calmed down," he says. "At Harvard I mainly concentrated on my work....That's when I did my most serious work, trying to think through political life in general," adds the candidate, a government concentrator whose favorite classes were the political theory offerings of Harvey C. Mansfield '53, now Kenan Professor of Government...
...after seven years of Bill Clinton (who is, to give him credit, a genius of personal survival even by Shackleton standards), the inchoate Grown-up Factor has taken shape in the electoral mind. There is a hunger - call it an unarticulated disgust - to see a mature adult in the White House next time around...
Jobs' compensation history is unusual, to say the least. He's been working for $1 a year since he returned in 1997 to the company he co-founded. By then he'd already sold his Apple stock in disgust. Given all that, Woolard thinks the board got a bargain. "I tried to get him to take options when the stock was at $20 a share," he recalls, "and that stock today would be worth around half a billion dollars. So, yes, he's worth...
...distributing advance copies of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of the test. Dan Erling, a respected sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students to "sit next to the smart kid" during testing. Last year 40 cases of educator cheating were brought...