Word: koo
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...Eliot was supposedly the blue-blood, ‘more Harvard than Harvard’ House,” says Gene Koo ’97, a tutor in Pforzheimer House who lived in Eliot as an undergraduate. “If you were to go through the yearbook I think you could basically look at the skin color of people in the House and you would see it was decidedly lighter skinned than Pforzheimer House...
...Koo says the lack of diversity in Eliot sometimes made the House feel stale...
...think the people who fit in really fit in and liked it there a lot,” Koo says. “What I noticed is that when the [randomized group of] sophomores came in it was kind of a breath of fresh...
...While Koo embraced randomization, some criticized randomization for breaking up the minority communities that had formed in the Quad...
...conference room, and told them not to come out until they had a plan for fixing the shuddering economy. The best and brightest dutifully took their places around the mahogany table and Premier Chang Chun-hsiung opened the floor to ideas. One came from banker-tycoon Jeffrey Koo, who said the meeting was a big waste of time because there were too many politicians present. Morris Chang, celebrity chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., said he didn't think 34 people could agree on anything. A couple of ministers noted that drastic measures were probably needed. Everyone ate mangoes...