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...said. Gomes, like Macey, encouraged the assembled students to learn from their classmate’s untimely death “not to live fearfully but to live fully.” He told students to treat each day as a gift and in so doing, “honor their friend...
...guns, currency, nutrition, legal troubles, religious beliefs, ships, codes of honor, and drunken revelries of pirates are thoroughly explained in a lively, yet detailed, prose...
Verba’s recent accolades include the Johan Skytte Prize in 2002—the highest international honor in political science—and being named as one of the “tweediest” professors by the now-defunct M Magazine...
...Lauren S. Herskovic, the collegiate editor at CO-ED Magazine, searched the Facebook for girls who “break the stereotype of unattractive women in Ivy League schools.” The chosen girls were then contacted via Facebook message with details on how they could win the honor (and the $1200 prize) of becoming Harvard’s next Miss University, a gateway to the national Miss CO-ED contest. The magazine encouraged each hopeful to submit flattering photos for “some advance consideration.” Everything came together last Tuesday in the Gilbert living...
...Perelman had posted a solution to the Poincare online, without even bothering to formally publish in an accredited math journal. The luminaries of the profession, according to the piece, all agreed that Perelman had done it. The International Mathematical Union had even offered him the Fields Medal, a high honor awarded to brilliant mathematicians under the age of 40. Perelman turned down the prize, saying that his proof spoke for itself, and that no further recognition was needed. Yau, meanwhile, according to the article, enlisted a pair of colleagues and, in an attempt to win prestige in the Chinese math...