Word: pies
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...Hall. But in his first hoedown since tying the knot, the University president proved to be a New man. Nearly half the Class of 2009 took a breather from their books for the chance to hobnob with the Big Man on Campus over a lavish spread of coconut cream pie, eclairs, and hot cider. But Summers, who was joined by his wife of three weeks, Professor of English Elisa New, spent less time on the dance floor this year. Asked to account for his reticence, the president called himself a “married man.” Standing...
Virgin's plans may sound a bit pie in the sky, but a New Mexico official says the state is prepared to shoulder a big chunk of the $200 million tab to build a spaceport because it will bring in an estimated $500 million in annual revenues. In addition to Virgin Galactic, the site will host X Prize founder Peter Diamandis' annual cup and his Rocket Racing League (think NASCAR at 5,000 ft. up). Even NASA may send some business out West. The agency last week completed a study on creating incentives for private industry to develop...
...premise that ambition is the"need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cutthroat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they make the pie bigger, so there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, the personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years...
...vendors and “Takeover” party promoters outside the Science Center last week, fraternity brothers from Sigma Chi were hawking for a needier cause. They raised $1,266 for the United Way’s Thanksgiving Project, enough to provide holiday feasts of turkey, stuffing, and pie for 21 families in the Boston area. Anthony J. Valente ’07, who organized the efforts for the fraternity, said he was shocked by the large response from Harvard students, having expected to raise just a few hundred dollars. “I can’t tell...
...already provided a library and estate that spawned the most prestigious university in the world. Now, his eponymous restaurant gives Harvard students a dessert on the house after a birthday hullabaloo. The celebrant can pick from a menu that includes the classic butterscotch bread pudding and the stout mudslide pie...