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...Videos of these brutal, bare-knuckled bouts (there goes Kimbo left-hooking some guy in the face, there's a Kimbo victim lying dazed and bloodied on the ground) drew over 10 million hits on YouTube. ProElite signed him up, and he has dominated his first three MMA fights. The 250-pound ball of fury might be the first Internet-generated athlete to reach mainstream superstardom. "I never thought it was going to blow up like this," he says...
...pedigree of those offering remembrances at today’s service reflected the standing in University that Knowles gained in his nearly 12 years as FAS dean: University President Drew G. Faust and former University President Neil L. Rudenstine were among those offering remarks, as well as Hanna H. Gray, a former member of the Harvard Corporation. Internationally renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma ’76 performed a selection from Bach, Knowles’ musical icon, for whom one of his sons—Sebastian—was named...
...Drew, he often said, with his eyebrows raised, I shall be beastly,” Faust said, recalling the lead-up to one of the former dean’s criticisms. Rudenstine related a remark from one of Knowles’ sons, who said that he “never saw anybody try so hard to minimize the detritus of entropy...
...With talks beginning as early as last year, Stanford Law School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview Friday that the reforms were driven by growing faculty and student discontent over the existing grading system. “We had created a false sense of precision and drew distinctions among students that weren’t really valid,” he said. “The biggest desire was that we wanted people to pick classes based on what they wanted to learn and not on grades.” The decision—which was made...
Simon, now 33, thought some of the things that make the U.S. the remarkable--and sometimes polarizing--power it is might be hidden in its unseen corners, so she set out to explore those places. She drew up a list of subjects to photograph and began a four-year project to uncover them. "I wanted to show the foundations of America, but sites off the radar," she says. The result is Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title...