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Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’68 wrote in an e-mail that Leverett was likely to move toward universal access...
...campus social life. Likewise, we need not stereotype all women as the same to see a problem in the fact that women in the sciences who are as gifted and motivated as their male peers are much more likely to become discouraged and abandon their ambitions. As Professor Howard Georgi told The Crimson last June, “In the sciences, it’s so obvious there’s a problem that recognizing there’s a problem is not the issue.” The issue is figuring out how the environment is unfair...
...Harvard at the last minute. After sending in the forms saying I wasn’t coming, I changed my mind,” he jokes. “I started as in-between math and physics, but I took a course with [Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics] Howard Georgi, who’s still here, and it really impressed me how fantastic it was that the math could be used to describe the real world. So by the end of freshman year I was pretty certain, and I was physics from then...
That's why ricin once enjoyed a certain cachet among international men of mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...
...over two years, Georgi Zedginidze’s reputation has been in limbo. A former Graduate School of Education (GSE) student from the Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...