Word: geek
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...wedding day.But it had been a long and varied road until that point. Raised in Newton, Mass. as the fifth of six children in a blue-collar family, Delaney-Smith had considered Harvard another world.“There’s the perception that Harvard is a geek school, a rich school, an entitled school,” Delaney-Smith said on camera. “When I applied for the job and told my mom, there was silence on the other end.”As the 6’5 Johnson discussed the idea behind...
...Unemployment will peak in the second quarter of 2010. And economic expansion should begin again in the fall of 2010. "My point is, things can turn pretty quickly," Zandi said, chuckling. "How's that for a happy ending?" After the presentation, he was engulfed in a sort of economic-geek circle at the front of the room. Men from the Department of Commerce, Freddie Mac and a real estate investment fund batted questions around: "Has your forecast for home prices changed?" "What about the savings rate?" As he raced out the door, Zandi was stopped by an economist from...
Orszag has been an unabashed behavioral geek ever since he read that 401(k) study. His deputy, Jeff Liebman of Harvard, is a noted behavioral economist, as are White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, Assistant Treasury Secretary nominee Alan Krueger of Princeton and several other key aides. Sunstein has been nominated to be Obama's regulatory czar. Even National Economic Council director Larry Summers has done work on behavioral finance. And Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan is organizing an outside network of behavioral experts to provide the Administration with policy ideas...
...wasn’t a blindly channelled science geek from the get-go,” said Janine P. Scott ’77, Hamburg’s roommate during her freshman and senior years...
...data available to the public and to release the code that runs the content database so that the Web site can serve as a research platform for scholars studying the subject matter, said Hal M. Roberts, the technical architect of the Web site and self-identified “geek in residence” at the Berkman Center...