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...possible that Mark Karr is delusional or that he is - more incomprehensibly - simply lying. At least one former acquaintance of Karr's considers this a distinct possibility. Janice Myhan, a professor of education at the University of North Alabama, says Karr was prone to telling outlandish lies. Myhan taught and advised Karr when he attended UNA from 1998 to 2000, where he majored in early childhood education. Karr was diminutive and intense, Myhan recalls, and frequently peppered her with questions from the front row, stopping her in mid-sentence to get her to repeat her words, so he could copy...
...89.Mosteller first came to Harvard in 1946 as a professor in the Department of Social Relations, and he remained on the faculty of the University for the rest of his academic career. He helped found the Stats department in 1957, and in doing so, helped distinguish statistics as a distinct field of study across academia. As its first chair, he led the department for over a decade.“When he was a student, major universities did not have statistics departments, only mathematics departments,” said his daughter, Gale Mosteller. “Now major universities typically...
...biography of identity," he lists the variety of languages spoken by his indigenous forebears, as well as clan, religious and geographic affiliations. He told a Brisbane audience last month that Australians need to take into account those parts of our identity that are shared and those which are distinct. Pearson argued that without a better understanding of identity, "multiculturalism" - because it is based only on "culture" - won't endure as a unifying concept. What could emerge, as Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen has suggested, is a plurality of monocultures. The moronic expression of this disease was glimpsed last December...
...region truly achieves independence. He was an extremist reporter from the Basque Country, which he declared to be its own country, though Madrid would say otherwise. I sighed. I might have been able to escape Catalán, but Spain was a step ahead of me with its four distinct languages. It is simply impossible to tell who is a “Spaniard” and who is not, revealing their whole modus operandi for integration was wrong from the outset. Steven A. McDonald ’07, a Crimson magazine editor, is a biology concentrator in Currier House...
...adults might seem ridiculous. But your eyes aren't meant to fall on any one thing; you are meant to be enveloped in a sort of ur-American nimbus that recalls every place and no place. Applebee's outlets tend to be built in suburbs that have no distinct identity on their own - no distinct "neighborhood" - which is why Applebee's slogan ("Eatin' good in the neighborhood") is so brilliant. It recalls the exact thing that's lacking...