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Starting some new organizations on campus requires a certain... finesse. Namely, a way with Greek women...
...1890s, girls outnumbered boys in public high school science courses across the country, according to The Science Education of American Girls, a 2003 book by Kim Tolley. Records from top schools in Boston show that girls outperformed boys in physics in the mid-19th century. Latin and Greek, meanwhile, were considered the province of gentlemen--until the 20th century, when lucrative opportunities began to open up in the sciences...
...Night Live's Lorne Michaels, whose Mean Girls earned $86 million. Best news: each of these films cost $30 million or less to produce. The studio also has an indie shingle, Paramount Classics, and has been angling to buy Newmarket Films, which distributed the surprise smashes My Big Fat Greek Wedding and The Passion of the Christ...
After more than 40 years, serving under every President since Kennedy in such trouble spots as Vietnam, Honduras and Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, 65, is the consummate diplomat--discreet, deliberate and always careful choosing his words, whether in English, French, Greek, Spanish or Vietnamese. So a day after President Bush nominated him to be the nation's first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Negroponte's brief exchange at a breakfast with the ambassadors representing the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council was telling. Asked by a diplomat whether he should "congratulate you or offer condolences...
...Greek shipping magnate, Negroponte was brought up amid privilege in New York City, attending boarding school at Exeter and college at Yale, where he played a mean game of poker and one of his classmates was CIA Director Goss, who will soon be reporting to him. After graduation, he joined the foreign service and was posted first to Hong Kong, then in 1964 to Vietnam. There he attracted the attention of a visiting Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger, who brought Negroponte to the National Security Council during the Nixon Administration, but the two fell out when Negroponte complained...