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...giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, "I am Beowulf, and I'm here to kill your monster." That's how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero. Deep-voiced announcer: "He's big. He's bold. And he's boastful... He's Beowulf...
...envisioned a grand environmental-education park in the depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall - with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" Smit says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final...
...discussion with author and University of Michigan professor Ruth Behar. The meal drew a “really excellent” turnout, according to Associate Director of Harvard Hillel Michael A. Simon. Elena C. Castañeda ’08, co-president of CAUSA who herself is one-eighth Jewish, noted the plethora of “non-traditional Hillel students eating here.” Susana Bejar ’08, CAUSA historian and a member of Harvard’s Sephardi Society, a club affiliated with Harvard Hillel, helped organize the event. A self-proclaimed...
...Yale’s most recent big mistake—not ending early action. We hope their admissions office enjoys reading those extra thousand early applications they’ve just received. Stressed much? Take comfort in knowing that all those extra applicants probably consider Yale their second (or eighth) choice school and will be applying to Harvard in the spring, regardless of what you offer them. But alas, come spring, over 1,000 naïve high school students will still make the mistake of matriculating at Yale. Of course, since only people prone to make bad decisions would...
India, ranked No. 48, has seen a bit of that hopscotching too. It is eighth in the world for quality of management schools yet 106th for quality of electricity supply. Bright minds, dim offices. The bigger story is that India trails that other unfurling economic giant: China finishes 34th overall, showing strength in areas like university-industry research collaboration (25th--see page 74) and national savings rate (7th) while remaining among the world's worst countries for things like the soundness of banks (128th). As for India, there is always discussion about the extent to which that country's bureaucratic...