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Kahn decided that honesty was the best policy when he named the new club. "We could have called ourselves the Academic Intellectual Society but then everyone would have said, 'Oh, you mean the nerd-and-geek club...
Leonid Fridman, Mather House resident tutor and SONG graduate school advisor, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere where learning is encouraged and fostered. "It's ridiculous that at a place like Harvard 'nerd' and 'geek' should be derogatory words," said Fridman...
Still, Gil's household is a sea of tranquillity compared with those of his siblings. One sister is single-parenting a potential juvenile delinquent. Another is married to a character played by this summer's one-man nerd fest, Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters II and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), who has their two-year-old memorizing square roots and reading Kafka. Then there's a brother, who drifts back home looking for a new way to get rich without working, help with his gambling debts and a place to park his illegitimate child, whose name is Cool, whose skin...
...your normal teenage pastimes, but Koop managed to avoid being the science nerd with a slide rule in his back pocket. He was on the wrestling, football and baseball teams, editor of the school paper and president of the student council. He went on to Dartmouth and Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant...
...People assumed Dukakis would respond, and he didn't," said Ed Rollins, national director of the Reagan's 1984 campaign. "It's been like John Wayne versus the nerd in the schoolyard...