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...Swaziland, from potpourri to potent potables, one Harvard freshman will have to know it all. Ashley M. Grand ’10 is set to appear as one of 15 contestants in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, vying for a $100,000 top prize, Sony Pictures Television announced Wednesday. Grand, who will head to the University of Southern California to compete on April 21 and 22, said her choice to audition for the show last year was a spur-of-the-moment decision. “I was in Chicago for a high school quiz...
...kids try to fit in at private school, the series shows that social mobility isn't as easy as advertised in America and that identity is less a constant than a performance. Everybody feels like a fraud, says The Riches. Some of us just happen to earn a bigger prize...
Many people said that blacks' being overrepresented in sports like baseball was bad; now they say that blacks being underrepresented is bad. Well, which is it? Black Americans are far more underrepresented among people who win the science Nobel Prizes, but that's rarely treated as a national crisis. Winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine would do more for the group's image than winning the MVP or a Cy Young Award, which black Americans have already proved they...
...might reasonably ask, What did Rudy do wrong? Giuliani was right about Arafat, who proved the most unworthy recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. And the nerve of that Saudi, in effect blaming the U.S. for 9/11--a month after 15 Saudi terrorists were involved in the attacks, directed by the Saudi Osama bin Laden! Thomas Friedman, no hothead, wrote a column offering "three cheers for Mayor Rudy Giuliani" for stiffing the prince. At the time, I was cheering too. But there is a difference between what is appropriate for a mayor and for a President...
Though SUP did not ultimately win the $10,000 award at yesterday’s ceremony at University of Massachusetts-Boston, PBHA President Angelico N.A. Razon ’08 said that he was happy that PBHA was even considered for the prize...