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...social in college.“We both worked pretty hard but we both played pretty hard too,” Simoncelli said.Simoncelli also recalled devoting entire weekends—Friday after dinner until early Monday morning—to problem sets for a particularly difficult course in their junior year. He adds that though the two were very studious, they had interests outside of physics.Greene was active in the Harvard theater scene as an actor. According to Simoncelli, Greene’s interest in the arts may have been inspired by his father—a bass player...
...took time off. The fall of my junior year—and it was the best decision I’ve ever made. We start here at 18, and not only are we facing down an institution more august and more challenging than anything we’ve ever imagined, we have to figure out where we fit in. As a freshman, I threw myself into the theater community with the force that only a freshman can muster. I was earnest, eager to please, and I wanted to make theater my life. I was in the Loeb every night from...
...identify corruption earlier than in confirmation hearings.One politician who was truly unfaithful to his electorate was former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Blagojevich’s decision to sell then-Senator Obama’s seat was despicable, and equally upsetting was his installation of Senator Roland Burris as the junior senator from Illinois. Blagojevich should not have been given such power after his unlawful actions, and the circus that ensued afterward was truly an abomination. The appointment of a new senator should have been made fairly and lawfully, and, most importantly, not by a person who was indicted on corruption...
...booking window for TIME.com readers. You'll get a $99-per-night deal if you book two nights, or $85 if you book three nights, including a breakfast buffet, through Sept. 30 as part of the "Summer Under the Sun" package. The rate is for a garden-view junior suite, but hey, with the golfing, pools and ocean right outside, you won't be in your room that much anyway. If you get tired of the beach, the resort is also near the El Yunque rain forest, which is the only rain forest in the U.S. parks system. Gran Melia...
...father Peter was a senior executive running Asia programs for the Ford Foundation, and as a boy Geithner lived in India and Thailand. In college he studied both Mandarin and Japanese, and as he told the students this morning, his two summers in Beijing (he came after his junior year as well) helped convince him that "I wanted to work for my government, and help to shape its policy toward this part of the world." (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...