Word: einstein
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...Baby Einstein vs. Barbie Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families...
...President Lawrence H. Summers, whose tenure as president ends in just five weeks. In an interview yesterday, Summers said, the new school would be the first new school at Harvard in three and a half decades. “As I like to say, great scientific achievement is about Einstein, but it’s also about Edison,” Summers said. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...fact, she has earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including a new bio-pic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention countless websites and, right now, nearly 1,600 products for sale on eBay. (Alfred Einstein has only 309.) For just $9.99 you can get a Large Bettie Page Red Whip Cloth Wall Banner; for $6.99, a Bettie Page Don't Tread on Me Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip...
...late,” he said. “It doesn’t really add up to that match.” Among the contributors to the Harvard Refugee Committee’s fundraising efforts were House tutors and College parents, netting praise from dignitaries such as Albert Einstein and Frances Farmer, The Crimson reported. “It wasn’t much in the way of organized activity,” Keller said. But “it is kind of striking that the students were as active as anybody else,” he added. Last...
...ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes for the evening - and for his own reputation in the arts - on the first, and what would be the only meeting between Proust and Joyce, two novelists who, as Davenport-Hines writes, "were destroying 19th century literary certainties as surely as Einstein was revolutionizing physics." As it happened, the two barely spoke. "Of course the situation was impossible," Joyce recalled later: "Proust's day was just beginning. Mine was at an end." And Davenport-Hine's real story is about to start. After sitting all these characters down to dinner in the first chapter...