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...love were all it took to transform the Adams House squash courts into a full-fledged Harvard gallery. For all the hype over the Advocate art show, the highlight was the independent effort by Eric Bennet (aka Jimmy Pistole) '97. Also, Jace Clayton '98 offered a multimedia show on Ellison's Invisible Man last fall featuring electronic music and video installations...
...will also attend the speech, says that Jones is a particularly appropriate choice of speaker because he, like the College, believes that cultures must interact to reaffirm and strengthen their own identities. Epps says the College's philosophy on race closely mirrors that of Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison...
Jones has listed Ellison as one of his favorite writers, and the message that Harvard's newest graduates will hear today comes from a man who made a career of sharing the culture that created him with the world that long ignored...
...Ellison has taken his appetite for teamwork outside Oracle, most prominently in a partnership with Milken to develop educational software. Knowledge Universe, a company the two started in 1996, will use computers to help kids (and their parents) learn faster and better. Together, Milken, Ellison and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs make up something of a billionaire boys' club, gathering to talk about Japanese gardening, molecular biology and their favorite flicks over sushi or macrobiotic soup...
Friendship, however, does little to distract Ellison from every billionaire's primary preoccupation: the man in the mirror. Just as Oracle reflects Ellison's warrior spirit, the company's future will mirror his dreams about where technology is headed. And his wonderment on that subject seems livelier than ever. "I'm endlessly curious as to how far I can push technology and how much technology can change our society," he says, an urgent note creeping into his voice. "All sorts of interesting questions need to be asked. Can Oracle become a more important company than Microsoft? I'm curious...