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...founder and Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, Facebook unveiled a polarizing ‘News Feed’ feature that allows users to track their friends’ actions online...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Facebook.com News Feeds Cause Dissent | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...School isn't my wheelhouse of strengths. I was an 8th-grade dropout, though I finished with correspondence classes. When I walk through the classrooms at my school, I try to figure out what the classroom's grade is. I listen to the questions and try to answer them. When I get to a point where I can't answer the questions, I'm somewhere around the fourth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Andre Agassi | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...your husband become so wealthy? Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Imelda Marcos | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

Although the Bush Administration at times overstated al-Zarqawi's indispensability to a predominantly homegrown insurgency, al-Zarqawi himself was a master of self-promotion. The high school dropout learned to use the Internet to burnish his image, recruit fighters and propagate his dream of perpetual jihad against infidels everywhere. It was his name that filled collection boxes in extremist mosques across the Islamic world. The National Counterterrorism Center believes that militants linked to al-Zarqawi may be operating in as many as 40 countries. In Iraq his dark charisma turned him into a figure of myth and legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War On Terror: The Apostle Of Hate | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...year-old college dropout who carries President Bush’s breath mints and makes him peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches will follow in his boss’s footsteps this fall when he enrolls at Harvard Business School...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush’s Personal Aide To Enroll at Business School | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

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