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...Year is 1932, and Diego, 17, a Mexican orphan, has been adopted by a gang of Coney Island, N.Y., con artists. He has been rechristened Ondoo by his mentors and trained to incant Hindu mumbo jumbo during the séances they stage to bilk millionaires on Long Island's Gold Coast. But their scams turn sour when a young girl goes missing, leaving a trail that leads to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the dark chapter of its history that today's gene scientists don't like to talk about. Ford, who teaches literature at a New Jersey community college...
MacFarlane—as Peter, who speaks with a thick Rhode Island accent—said that there may be a future U.S. president in the class...
...Many of the ideas here come from our hundreds and thousands of hours of discussion. I very much sense that he’s teaching the class with me.”Friends and colleagues are planning to establish a research center dedicated to Stone on the Croatian island of Losinj—one of the several places he offered consulting advice. The center will act as an “intellectual incubator” for the late professor’s ideas and unfinished projects that “promise to improve the quality of life of individuals, communities...
...able to cling to a rock and was later pulled safely aboard, the group was unable to save Shakir and Brown University senior Alison Michener. “We caught up to Shirin and pulled her out of the water,” Cooney told Newsday of Long Island, N.Y. “But it was too late.” Family and friends remember Shakir as someone who was bright but humble and committed to using her gifts to improve society. “She wanted to go into U.S. policy-making, to make a difference...
...giant asshole.” But despite the traditionally humorous bent of the Ivy Orations, Burkle says he still wants to take the opportunity to say something meaningful. “Because I was so active in theater all the time, I felt like I was on an island for a lot of my college career, and I didn’t get to pay enough attention to the people in my class who really made a big difference in my life,” Burkle says. “So I wanted to do something...