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...pretend that the small elite around Harvard is the whole world, but we’d just be wasting four years of our lives.Once we realize that billions of people exist outside of our little bubble, we have to ask ourselves whether they need another businessman, politician, or lawyer who follows the socially acceptable compromise path.For example, last summer’s immigration protests were hailed as the equivalent of the civil rights movement for latinos, but there was no Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the movement. Why? Because the leaders of the immigration movement were too distant from...
...article, enlisted a pair of colleagues and, in an attempt to win prestige in the Chinese math community, had them put together a more technically rigorous, and nominally more complete, version of the proof. When he read this account, Yau was outraged. A few weeks later, his lawyer sent a letter to Nasar, Gruber, and the fact-checker who worked on the article asking for immediate assistance “in undoing, to the extent possible, the literally world-wide damage” the story had done to Yau’s reputation. “This...
...estimates, has ranged from 80-100% over the past few years. That's been a trend everywhere Europeans have started to call home. During her 11 years as a resident of Marrakech - where she's worked as an interior designer, hotel operator and property developer - former Paris-based lawyer Meryanne Loum-Martin has seen the local real estate market rapidly go from bubbling to booming. In particularly hot neighborhoods, she says, traditional riad villas that sold for j90,000 per hectare six years ago are now priced at €700,000. Per hectare prices in less effervescent areas have risen...
...Ford himself has said he'll stay neutral regarding Cohen and his brother Jake. But the rest of the family is splitting over the race. Joe Ford Jr., an entertainment lawyer who finished third in the congressional primary - and is first cousin to both Jake Ford and Harold Ford Jr. - has endorsed Cohen. But Harold Sr., a former congressman, has gone all-out for son Jake, especially since longtime rival Herenton put down young Ford as unqualified (he dropped out of high school) and accused the Fords of seeking "a monopoly on all elected positions in this state and this...
JoAnn Hagopian, 54, a human-resources director in Cincinnati, Ohio, says the quarter-operated pony she and her husband Gary, 56, a lawyer, bought for their living room reflects nostalgia not so much for her childhood but for the happy time when her daughters, now 18, 20 and 22, thrilled to such rides as little girls, crying "Again, Mommy, again...