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...this interest in theater, Simoncelli suggested, that may have foreshadowed his later entree in the popular science arena.“He loved being on stage when he did those shows,” he said. “I think when he became a scientist, he started giving talks and realized how much he enjoyed it.”DOWN TO A SCIENCEJust as he roamed the halls in search of a willing mentor in the seventh grade, Greene said he would “unabashedly knock on professors’ doors” at Harvard. He asked astrophysics...
...give him an assignment at seven at night, and he would have it in at nine in the morning, there in completed form, waiting for me on my desk,” Dershowitz said...
...lamenting the disintegration of our national discourse into one of soundbytes and an American youth plagued by generational ADD. After observing a teenager’s impatience with the sloth of text messaging, comedian Louis CK commented wryly, “Your message is going to space. Give it a second.” Moreover, our vocabulary has come to reflect the speed at which our words are spoken and sent: Since we “obvi” don’t have time for those extra two syllables, our new bevy of “abbrevs?...
Before you fault me for a certain brand of Harvard bubble-dwelling—they don’t just give jobs out!—you should know that they once really did. There’s a well-worn story told at The Crimson about a wealthy magazine owner cold-calling the newsroom a few years ago and asking for recruits. Give me your name, and I’ll give you a job. Couldn’t have been easier. It was a foot in the door that served at least a couple young writers quite well...
...campaigning for the referendum, advocates encountered a legal barrier: they needed to muster 4,000 signatures to give Cambridge voters an opportunity to vote for or against the measure on the November ballot...