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Senior Lecturer on Chemistry James E. Davis, who teaches Chem 5, attributes the dropout rate to multiple causes...
DreamWorks flew in dozens of religious experts and clergy for repeated discussions about the film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks...
Ling, an Oklahoma high school dropout, went into the electronics business in 1946 with a $3,000 stake. To finance his earliest acquisitions, he hired salesmen to peddle shares of Ling Electric Co. door to door in Dallas and even set up a booth at the Texas State Fair. Brokers laughed, but investors did well. "The genesis of our business was diversification," says Ling of his rapid expansion, which included everything from aircraft to baseball mitts...
Philosophically, the simplistic pop Hinduism that was hippie spirituality has been displaced by bright young pagans: the computer-programming, anthropologically aware polymaths who have popularized the imaginative role-playing bulletin boards (MUDs and MOOs) of cyberspace. And the popular new dropout vision is Temporary Autonomous Zones, a rugged, realistic liberation doctrine that's completely purged of hippie naivete...
...could be a famous Harvard dropout. But first you need to leave. It's not hard. Simply show up at the office of your senior tutor or freshman dean, fill out some withdrawal petitions, a cancellation of housing form and some other random sheets of paper that will allow Harvard to keep tabs on you while they can't track your every move via ID card. These all come before the Ad Board, who will hem and haw about whether to let you, a legal adult, definitely above the compulsory schooling age, withdraw from school. Strangely enough, they'll decide...