Word: karp
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...York City public schools violated boys' rights to equal access by setting up an all-girls school. "In general, we're opposed to single-sex classrooms because studies show that in the long term, where boys and girls are separated, more resources are devoted to the boys," says Stacey Karp, president of NOW in San Francisco. So far, no one has challenged Marina's program...
...cheat detector program, which was written a few years ago by graduate student Trevor L. Blackwell, uses a well-known pattern-matching procedure called the Rabin-Karp algorithm to generate the similarity scores, according to Shelat...
Beginning November 11, students can call to make appointments for anonymous testing and counseling. The first set of tests will be performed during the week of November 18, said Julie A. Karp '98, a task force member and AIDS Education and Outreach (AEO) co president...
...definitely views this book as a comeback with a vengeance," says his editor, Jonathan Karp. Five years ago, Puzo had quadruple-bypass surgery, followed by a long and gloomy convalescence. His book in progress, a saga about the Borgias, stalled. He thought he might never write again. But transpose the Machiavellian city-state of the Borgias to a fortress in the Bronx, add a summer palace on Long Island and playgrounds in Las Vegas and Hollywood, and--Ecco!--the godfather of Mafia fiction is back in business...
Three Cheers for Hypocrisy would make a suitable subtitle for The Last Don. "Mario writes about the hearts of thieves and thievery in our hearts. He is fascinated by the moral ironies in life," says Random House editor Karp. Puzo's own are no exception. Before he wrote The Godfather, Puzo spent years vainly trying to gamble his way out of debt. Eventually crime paid, but not in the way he thought it would...