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Besides Skocpol, the members of the committee include 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is also chair of FAS’s Committee on Pedagogy; Andrew A. Biewener, chair of the department of organismic and evolutionary biology; Benjamin M. Friedman, professor of political economy; Mary Malcolm Gaylord, professor of Romance languages and literatures; Eric Mazur, professor of physics; Xiao-Li Meng, chair of the department of statistics; Michael J. Puett, chair of the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, professor of music and African and African-American studies...
...Morgan Friedman...
Overheard in New York (OHinNY) is the brainchild of 30-year-old Morgan Friedman. Empathizing with a conversation a hipster and his girlfriend were having in a cafe in Brooklyn in 2003, Friedman decided that what they were saying was worth writing down. He then published those quotes for the whole world to see. Friedman and his "trusted spies" of five friends combed the streets of New York listening for interesting and entertaining bits of conversation to post on OhinNY. One recent favorite, overheard in downtown Manhattan: A tourist asks a cop for directions, and he replies, "See that naked...
...Comics Week. It makes sense, considering the $5 billion global manga market. Tokyopop, the largest U.S.-owned creator and licensor of manga, with $40 million in sales last year, signed a co-publishing deal with HarperCollins. The 11-to-21-year-old market is huge, says CEO Jane Friedman, who predicts steady growth for the category. The Princess Diaries' Meg Cabot will publish Avalon High next spring; additional young-adult titles will follow. In January, Simon & Schuster expanded its partnership with San Francisco--based Viz Media, a top publisher that licenses manga from Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan. Random House...
...believe that all roads lead to the same place. We're taking different ways to get there, but we all end up in the same place. It's kind of like Kinky Friedman's statement, "May the God of your choice bless you." That's the main thoughts that I have about life...