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...never rise from nothing. This is hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that prides itself on being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made men (and women)—of J.K. Rowling writing the first chapter of Harry Potter on the back of a café napkin when she was a single mother on welfare, or of Steve Jobs dropping out of Reed College because he couldn’t pay tuition—are no less popular now than they were during Horatio Alger’s day. In a 2007 article titled...
...lips with celebrities, sometimes the next best thing is a lipstick mark... or in this case, a used wine glass. Our very own Nicholas A. Noyer ’09 is the proud owner of Jessica Biel’s wine glass and Justin Timberlake’s rumpled napkin, which he snagged from Daedalus after the couple finished dining there two weeks ago. Noyer had received a “spotted” text, and rushed over to the scene. After a meal occupied more by oogling than chewing, he left the restaurant not with a hand-penned autograph...
When I was a little boy, Irving was a man of mystery, like James Bond suavely passing through Miami International Airport. My grandmother and I greeted him as he came off a plane and we sat in a coffee shop, where he diagrammed an atom on a napkin and explained his job - nuclear physicist. Only years later did I learn that he was involved in Operation Dominic, as the U.S. detonated 105 nuclear explosions in the Pacific and he flew in an airplane trying to measure a bomb's electro-magnetic pulse. He hardly ever discussed...
...started as a sketch on a napkin, and it became an international health movement...
...napkin first came into play when Graduate School of Design architecture student Michael P. Murphy attended a lecture by Medical School professor Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH). Murphy was shocked to find that there were no architects assisting Farmer in designing the modern and sanitary hospitals integral to PIH’s mission. Previously, the only hospital design had come from Farmer’s amateur napkin sketches. These napkins and lack of real architectural support inspired Murphy to get involved, spearheading a movement with fellow GSD students to build an innovative hospital prototype in Rwanda...