Word: isaac
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...Isaac T. Kohlberg’s appointment as associate provost and chief technology development officer comes as Harvard attempts to beef up “technology transfer,” a practice by which universities license technologies stemming from their research to companies who develop them. Kohlberg currently heads up technology transfer efforts for Tel Aviv University...
...night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...
...while other well-endowed land masses lagged or failed," Evans writes. Five years in the works, this coffee-table anchor is the basis for a PBS series that starts Nov. 8. America is superbly written and thoroughly researched. Yet its power draws from the commonalities it finds between, say, Isaac Merritt Singer, whose sewing-machine firm was the first U.S. multinational in the 1860s, and Russell Simmons, the rap producer who took hip-hop global in the 1990s...
...actually visit some of those tourist attractions. Every morning was the first decision of the day: did we want croissants and a nice single-stall with a self-warming seat or donuts with a full row of toilets and automatic faucets? Often, we’d choose both: Isaac ate second meals like a hobbit, which doubled our food budget. I fretted about the money, yet went to bed smiling...
After a year of college, I’d forgotten what Isaac was like. He wasn’t some pseudo-intellectual who wrote long papers on the philosophy of reflections in the art of the Japanese garden. My brother was a young man who liked short skirts, violent comics, and a second order of ramen. He also taught himself Japanese, gave up bus seats for ladies, and knew when my backpack was too heavy. We went to Japan so Isaac could find himself, but it was I who needed to find him. As July drew towards...