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...kind of excellent work that makes our graduates the best in the nation, gets them into top graduate schools and in a position to be choice targets in the competition for top jobs and to contribute to science and engineering immediately after graduation,” Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote. “We do not see overspecialization as a problem that needs to be addressed...
Besides being a truly sharp dresser, Gordon Teskey also happens to be a professor of English and American Literatures and Languages.His teaching style has made him enormously popular. Case in point: a Facebook group entitled “Actually Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle-English For the Rest of My Life” currently boasts 54 members. But more importantly, he’s probably the only tenured professor on campus who regularly wears polka-dot ties. He often sports an old-school bowler cap while riding a yellow-wheeled bicycle around the Barker Center. With aplomb, even.Harvard...
...known as Blank Monday in the surfing world, the $4.5 billion industry's core snapped like a board caught in the Banzai Pipeline. Reason? The closure of Gordon (Grubby) Clark's four-decade virtual monopoly on polyurethane blanks, the raw material for most surfboards. (Shapers then customize them for surfers.) Clark's Laguna Niguel, Calif., company produced 80% of blanks worldwide, and his sudden exit (encircled by rumors of pressure by environmental regulators) left surfers treading water as board prices doubled and deliveries were cut off. One man's wipeout, though, could be another's dream wave. Harold Walker...
...children. Of course, there were bright spots. Angela Merkel, making her debut as Germany's new Chancellor, gave a well-received speech. (I particularly liked her homage to Ludwig Erhard, the architect of the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder - when was the last time that he got his due?) Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, got a round of heartfelt applause - but for his many contributions to ameliorating poverty and misery in the developing world, not for anything he has done to shake the rich half of Europe out of its slumber. Two years ago, at the Time Board...
...think people will show up [to vote]...when specific legislation and proposals are on the table,” Gordon said hopefully. “Maybe I’m na?...