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Ryan Greenberg, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, has assembled a list of more than 200 such sites. "It's your chance to get 15 seconds of fame on the Internet," explains Greenberg, whose 2008 paper on the subject is available at IsThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com. "There's something innately funny about a website that goes on for 60 characters, or an entire sentence...
...Inside, there’s everything: palms, girls, the Blue Express, the azure ocean, a white ship, a barely used tuxedo, a Japanese butler, your own pool table, platinum teeth, socks with no holes, dinners cooked with real butter, but most importantly, my little friends, the power and fame that come with money.” Their scheme is the key to something that sounds uncannily similar to the American Dream...
...fact that the show’s run has already sold out is an indication of its fame and also of its thematic appropriateness to this academic setting. “We really wanted to reach out and branch out beyond the typical theatergoers,” Lodha said. “There is something interesting in the convergence of mathematics and theater. What’s very interesting about this show is taking something that seems like two polar opposites and showing that there isn’t that much of a difference after...
Bruce J. Wasserstein—a graduate of the Harvard Business and Law Schools who led financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard and gained fame as a pioneer of hostile takeovers in business—died Wednesday in New York City...
...Professor Ichiro Kawachi, induction into the Institute of Medicine is “like getting voted into the baseball hall of fame.” And this year, he’s far from alone at Harvard—which provided 11 of the IOM’s 65 new members announced this week...