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...Even the name “True Love Revolution” suggests some shift. According to Sarah Kinsella, a co-founder of the group, the group’s founders wanted a name that was “catchy and fun, one that didn’t take ourselves too seriously.” True Love Revolution is not the only group capitalizing on this “catchy and fun” vibe. A national group dubbed Silver Ring Thing, which is likewise aimed at promoting abstinence among young people, also seeks to reel in membership through vibrant means...
...tournament is better than Yale’s by bringing on Will Shortz.” Shortz is the editor of the New York Times’s daily crossword, and Kyle A. Mahowald ’09—the Harvard College Crossword Society’s founder and president—interned with him last summer. “Kyle raised the idea of doing a crossword contest at Harvard, and I thought it was a great idea,” said Shortz. Shortz founded the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT), after which this tournament was modeled...
...brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer--a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century...
...Yang, co-founder of the pro-democracy group Foundation for China in the 21st Century, was arrested when he entered China to investigate labor conditions...
Wendy M. Seltzer ’96 (HLS ’99) is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Charles R. Nesson ’60 (HLS ’63) is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society...