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Still, the dotcom bust casts a shadow, with fears that once again too much money is chasing too few good ideas. The drive to go green, so strong today, could rapidly lose momentum if oil prices were to drop significantly, and it hasn't escaped notice that clean tech has yet to produce a bank-breaking success like Netscape, which made Kleiner Perkins a fortune. "Everybody with a dollar thinks they're a clean-tech investor now," says Foundation Capital's Grosser. "A ton of people could lose a lot of money on solar or biofuels." But defenders point...
...Here in Texas it seems to be a dying art,” said Liles, who makes a living as a hospital courier.And his daughter, who aspires to be a cardiovascular surgeon, is more than 1,800 miles away. He has only been to Cambridge once, to drop Lindsay off freshman year, and has never seen her perform at a Harvard football game.(NOT) THE IVY LEAGUE’S DRAWThe only other baton twirler performing with an Ivy League band is Amy G. Horwath, a senior at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration.“Football...
...each excessive in their own ways, whether overzealous in hopes of a smaller government, more stringent immigration laws, or the criminalization of abortion. They are the Augustus Gloops of this election: Just as Gloop was eliminated from the contest first because of his excess, these candidates will drop out early (or already have) because of a similar flaw. Next is former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who, as the son of a former Michigan governor grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, much like Dahl’s Veruca Salt. Romney is definitely the most blue-blooded and aristocratic...
...providers. Harvard offers few term-time study abroad placements. Most students who go abroad during the semester do so through programs at other schools. Catherine H. Winnie, director of the Office of International Programs, said she sees no indication that the dollar’s fall has precipitated a drop in enrollment. The most popular destinations for Harvard students studying abroad in 2006-2007 were Italy, Spain, England, and France—a trend Winnie said was likely to continue. Despite increases in the price of some schools’ programs, many students said their time abroad was still less...
...ticket garnering 66 percent of the first-place votes. The low voter turnout may have been due in part to the established reputations of Sundquist, currently the council’s vice president, and Sarafa, its Finance Committee chair. The two were considered the overwhelming favorites throughout the campaign.The drop was particularly noteworthy since the Election Commission extended the voting window by 24 hours—lasting from Monday at noon to midday Friday.Sundquist’s campaign manager, Maryellen ‘Mel’ C. McGowan ’09, said Thursday that she was aware...