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...flip to page 314 of November’s GQ, you’ll be just one flip away from seeing a familiar face: that of Alex C. Math ’10. At the end of his senior year of high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Math, now a freshman in Matthews, was interviewed and trailed by Devin Friedman, GQ’s senior writer and an alumnus of Shaker Heights High School. And when a photographer showed up at his door to follow him and his prom date around for the evening, Math was excited about his newfound...
...career, but rather the story of a businessman who embarks on a journey to discover himself. Sure, it’s hackneyed, but director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year” still manages to entertain. The film’s plot line is familiar, and holds very few twists. Included within is the traditional “boy meets girl, girl changes boy” formula along with the rather tired “city-boy leaves city, falls in love with country, understands error of former city-boy ways” trope. Despite...
...Polka’] was fun. I wasn’t familiar with the choreography,” he says. “I’m having a lot of fun with that one. I prefer things that are more technical, but it’s nice to have a change. Diversity is always a good thing...
...types of Alzheimer’s research receive about half of the fund’s money. As the genetic mapping project moves towards completion, the fund plans to increase its funding towards research probing the contributions of specific genes to Alzheimer’s. Researchers who are already familiar with these genes will be offered funding in the hopes that their knowledge will grant them a better understanding of these genes’ role in the disease. The genetic mapping of Alzheimer’s disease is slated to be completed in summer 2008, but the project is ahead...
...world. Savan finds pop in the flappers of the 1920s, “Seinfeld,” and the Super Bowl, and has veritable glossaries of pop for the Average Joe and what she calls “the community of commitment-centered words.” Two familiar Harvard personalities, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt, even get mentions...