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...after college. However, when he founded the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum during his sophomore year, his direction shifted.“I had always had a philosophical interest in business and entrepreneurship.” Segal said. “I wanted to learn more about these people who disrupt how we think about the world, and in the process, I became enamored with the entrepreneurial world and decided that I wanted to be a part of it.”The Business School will still be in touch with students who were offered interviews but not admittance. Leopold said...
...getting cancer, and those who get it are surviving longer. We are benefiting from improved surgical techniques as well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City, a former NIH director and a Nobel-winning researcher in lung cancer. "We feel we understand some of the basic principles. We understand...
...PINIELLA, Chicago Cubs manager, arguing that the new system will slow down the game and could be used as a tactic to disrupt pitchers' rhythms...
...landing in 1998 as a press secretary for the underfunded California Senate campaign of Matt Fong, who lost to Barbara Boxer. At one point, to drum up press coverage about Fong's contention that Boxer did not take terrorism seriously, Schmidt arranged for a man in work clothes to disrupt one of Fong's own press conferences by lighting a Sterno candle to symbolize a chemical attack. "Schmidt always was thinking outside the box," says Fong...
Argentina was the model. Ginboli, Scola, Oberto, Nocioni. NBA-caliber players, meshed together from the time they were toddlers, playing for national pride. In Athens in 2004, it was basketball that became the beautiful game for the Argentines, as they whipped passes no D could disrupt, and stroked threes with frightening ease. They flattened the U.S. with precision, and won gold. Maradona and Messi would be proud...