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...novel depicts life at Dupont University (think Ivy-League but with sports), an elite institution in Pennsylvania, for four very different undergraduates and a sprinkling of adults for unsubtle contrast. As with most of Wolfe’s novels there is a host of characters, but four comprise the novel’s main focus: Charlotte Simmons, the naïve and beautiful titular protagonist; Hoyt Thorpe, the self-obsessed fratboy; “Jojo” Johanssen, the gargantuan whitey baller; and Adam Gellin, Nerd...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

While the circuit’s jurisdiction covers only Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, FAIR President Kent Greenfield said he expects the injunction to affect law schools nationwide...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Court: Solomon Rule Invalid | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

Summers was born to a family of economists in New Haven, Conn., on Nov. 30, 1954. He grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia, and attended public schools while his parents taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Feted At 50th Birthday | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER, of Pennsylvania, on resistance in Congress to his heading the Judiciary Committee because of his pro-choice record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 29, 2004 | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...theory could produce. The number he came up with was a 1 followed by something like 100 zeros--roughly a hundred billion billion times the number of atoms in our universe. It was an answer that didn't please anyone. Says Max Tegmark, a theorist at the University of Pennsylvania: "People have tried very hard to get rid of these multiple universes and failed. They just don't like the concept; they think it's weird. And they're right. But don't we already have good evidence by now that the cosmos really is weird?" To Einstein's celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Conundrum | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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