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...bright, but not terribly popular, student, Tribe’s horizons were limited. He hadn’t ever heard of Harvard until a friend suggested he apply, and after being admitted, he enrolled without visiting. His parents had no money—his father was too honest to be a good car salesman, he says—so the University picked up his tuition bill...
...country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi-revered for his advocacy of civil rights-for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...DIED. Ray Noorda, 82, known as the "father of network computing," who took over flailing tech company Novell in 1982 and led it to dominance in networking software that allowed users to share files and printers; in Orem, Utah. Noorda coined the term "coopetition"-companies making products that work together. But he famously engaged in a long, ultimately fruitless battle with Microsoft-which in the 1990s devoured much of Novell's market share-that helped prompt his retirement...
...through the eyes of the anthropologist that she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well. Moreover, as a child I rarely came in contact with those who might offer a substantially different view of faith. My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition...
...friends originally intended to contribute to the high costs of transporting Wang’s mother, who is retired, and father, who works as an engineer, from Guangzhou, China for their son’s funeral and memorial service. Since Harvard College has paid for the family’s travel expenses, the group of friends now plans to present the money they are raising as a symbol of support for Wang’s family...