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...change of pace from the obligatory Harvard entryway-friend birthday-destination. Men take note: general manager Will Brennan pointed out, “Often you’ll see six women come here and check the place out, but never six guys.” You do the math. Come here. Bring your friends, or at least an adventurous spirit. The staff will be very nice to you and no one will know who you are, unless you care to introduce yourself to various Harvard Law Students. 1688 Mass. Ave. (617) 547-5055. Daily...
...Grams, which won Penn the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, traces a circle of pain similar to the one in Mystic River. Paul (Penn) is a math professor whose life is saved by a heart transplant. He learns that the heart came from a man killed with his two daughters in a hit-and-run accident. He joins the man's widow (Naomi Watts) in seeking out the driver (Benicio Del Toro) and considering whether the inadvertent killer should live...
...Square" Scientist Physicist Edward Teller [Milestones, Sept. 22], the "father of the hydrogen bomb," was a fervent foe of Nazism and communism. Our Nov. 18, 1957, report noted the reasons for this opposition and described the young Teller's facility in math...
...College plays a role in this: by my math, Harvard has eight men’s centers, but no women’s center or center for students of color. It should do what it can to alleviate this imbalance—there must be more student space for a more diverse array of student groups. As for the clubs themselves, one day their space will be owned by student groups that actually do something (Imagine a PBHA clubhouse: ex-final club members would have to do service in order to party in their old club). But for that...
There’s no mincing words: Washington D.C.’s public schools are hellish. By the time the system’s students are in the fourth grade, 94 percent are not proficient in math and 90 percent are not proficient in reading. It only gets worse, though. About half of D.C.’s kids don’t graduate. Those who do are not given any sort of terminal proficiency examination; and, if they were, the results would probably be horrific...