Word: dropout
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...they fail to account for an important environmental influence: parents. My younger brother and I are mostly the reverse of the stereotypical firstborn and second-born/last-born. I am more independent than my brother and led a more adventurous childhood. I take after our father, who was a college dropout and more creative. My brother takes after our mother, who was mathematically inclined. Birth order is not the determining factor it once was. Gary Ostrick, LOS ANGELES
...normal time, not going into an office, hiring people by, like, bringing them into your house and letting them chill with you for a while and party with you and smoke with you.” The deal also represents a victory for Microsoft, founded in 1975 by Harvard dropout Bill Gates, over rival firms Google and Yahoo, which also sought to work closely with Facebook. As part of the arrangement, Microsoft won the position of “exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook,” according to a statement. The company will now sell...
...normal time, not going into an office, hiring people by, like, bringing them into your house and letting them chill with you for a while and party with you and smoke with you.” The deal also represents a victory for Microsoft, founded in 1975 by Harvard dropout Bill Gates, over rival firms Google and Yahoo, which also sought to work closely with Facebook. As part of the arrangement, Microsoft won the position of “exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook,” according to a statement. The company will now sell...
...starters, Burma is ruled by one of the world's longest-standing military dictatorships. An army-led coup in 1962 against a democratically elected government brought men in uniform to power, first the charismatic and superstitious Ne Win, now his rather less magnetic successor Than Shwe. A high-school dropout who later trained in psychological warfare, Than Shwe, 74, helms a secretive group of generals that calls itself the State Peace and Development Council. True to its grand name, the junta controls not only the armed forces but all aspects of politics and the economy as well. Indeed, constitutional guidelines...
...planning to make a career out of an activity college students nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook number from the Harvard Lampoon,” said Lushing, a former member of the semi...