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...jettisoned their degrees for the pros, as tennis star James Blake did in 1999. Recent baseball players Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff, all of the Class of ’06, signed minor-league contracts and left a semester short of graduation, but all three were on pace to earn their degrees in January...
...others.” From the business standpoint, the founders said that Latin America seemed like a promising market for a new social networking site. “It’s a place where Internet use is increasing every year and technology is booming at a rapid pace,” said Kushner. “We’re hoping to get pretty big, pretty fast.” And while Vostu.com creators are currently focusing on the Latin American community, they hope to expand in the future. Schlosser said they are planning to launch an Arabic version...
...hard-fought third set knotted at 4-4, while two courts over, No. 1 Chris Clayton had just lost his second set in a match that required the skills of football, baseball and tennis combined. Clayton’s match had proceeded at a snail’s pace with stupendously long points that had the audience strung out and quivering with excitement and the players—especially Clayton’s opponent, Branko Kusmanovic—wheezing and gasping for breath.Clayton had won the first set, 7-6, in as much time as it had taken most...
...doing global health from a social medicine perspective” which illustrates the “genius” of Farmer and PIH, Kleinman said. But the technique is expensive, he added. “Partners in Health’s budget has grown at a remarkable pace,” Marx said. “But the demand for—the need for—the kind of work we do is almost infinite.” He pointed to a $20 million disparity between the organization’s requested and actual budget. PIH was founded...
Sure, I experienced the frustrations of libraries that closed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and short shopping hours on Sunday, but the beauty of living in Oxford was that life moved at a slower, saner pace than my hyper-scheduled Harvard existence. Rather than going-going-going all the time, I was sometimes forced to pause and consider why I was writing my dissertation, what I really wanted to be learning, and how I wanted to move forward after graduate school...