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...drop-out drop-out speech, Rudy referred to his combative nature: "Like most Americans, I love competition. I don't back down from a principled fight." But he stayed out of Iowa, New Hampshire (at least once he fell behind there), Wyoming, Michigan and South Carolina, holding out for a fight he thought he could win in Florida, trying to win a national election on local battlefields of his own choosing. He listened to political operatives who valued big-state delegates more than small-state momentum, and now it looks like he's going to get neither. The humorist Dave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giuliani Completes His Collapse | 1/29/2008 | See Source »

...University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including professors, philosophers, a basketball player, and one drop-out billionaire...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates, Summers To Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates, Summers To Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...down Massachusetts Avenue past Widener and Lamont libraries. In about ten minutes, you’ll be at Central, where you can rent a movie from Blockbuster, get a Big Mac, or just enjoy Cambridge from the perspective of famous former residents Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (a Harvard drop...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life at Harvard Can Extend Outside the Gates of the Yard | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...Before Katrina, 102 of the city's schools were considered academic failures, the city had one of the nation's highest drop-out rates, most eighth-grade students had below-average test scores, and the city had had 10 superintendents in as many years, Cowen told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Easy's Next Test | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

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