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...Study. Faust gave crucial support to Radcliffe’s recruitment of leading scientists, and also viewed the Institute as a way of attracting prominent scientists to the University. From my experiences putting together a focused research group on cosmology, I could see how Faust understood many of the distinct issues and requirements facing scientists and how she absorbed what it takes to attract the most promising scientists and provide them with an environment in which they can thrive. Faust was consistently present at Radcliffe science activities, including fellows’ talks and science lectures, and made a point...
...Members of the Class of 1982 lamentsthe loss of the distinct personalities of the Houses in recent interviews...
...Working with co-director Vincent Paronnaud (the celebrated comix artist known as Winshluss), Satrapi finds a simple, supple, almost monochrome visual style that allows the heroine's distinct voice and raucous wit. Even when the story turns from Iranian political melodrama into more familiar coming-of-age territory, Persepolis never loses its momentum, its sustaining sense of fun or its rapturous hold on the viewer...
Opposition to the rules hasn’t led to a mass movement at the Medical School. “On balance,” Professor of Medicine Thomas P. Stossel says, “the really entrepreneurial faculty is a distinct minority, so you don’t see anyone running to the barricades...
...What I would worry about,” Larimore summarizes, “is that with a lack of diversity in sports, we would effectively be looking at athletes—who spend so much time with each other already—in a special or distinct way, and saying, ‘These things are important for everyone except...