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Perhaps he sat behind the desk at Lamont when you checked out a book, offering a gentle smile or a kind word...
...Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for contributions to welfare economics, will deliver the Class Day address at the Kennedy School today. He rejoined the Harvard economics department in January after spending nearly six years as master of Trinity College, Cambridge—a post he garnered after recommendation by the British prime minister...
...droplets form. The problem is, there are too many aerosols in the atmosphere competing for water molecules, so the cloud droplets that form are too small and never become weighty enough to fall to the ground. As a result, says Beate Liepert, an atmospheric physicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the atmosphere could be filled with moisture while Earth's surface thirsts for rain...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
Well, Dartboard hopes students are prepared for the starvation and thirst yet to come this reading period. While they’re struck by headaches and groaning stomachs, at least they can rest assured knowing that they have Dartboard’s sympathies—Lamont certainly won’t express the least bit of compassion...