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...yourself airplane kits. Rutan's $26 million SpaceShipOne proved in 2004 that a privately built vehicle could reach the edge of space and do it twice in five days safely. The plane, bankrolled by former Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize (sponsored by a foundation seeking radical breakthroughs in space travel) that year and removed, once and for all, what Carmack calls the "giggle factor" in private spaceflight. "This is real. We're not dreaming anymore," Branson says, all signs of his Necker Island playfulness gone. "You could argue," he says, taking a swipe...
...creative thesis seemed like the perfect thing.” For others, the ability to work closely with successful writers and poets makes the creative thesis even more enticing. Boudreau is recording a collection of her spoken word poetry for her creative thesis. She describes her thesis adviser, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham, as “a rock star in the poetry world.”THE PROFESSORHarvard’s creative writing track offers an equally appealing and elusive opportunity to its teachers. Graham’s status...
Disappointed Kagan loyalists honored their Dean with a party on Feb. 13. Law school student and Kagan supporter Samuel Flaks says the event “was partly a consolation prize, but really students just talked about all the great things she’s done for this school and about how much they love...
Zackheim, whose geek tag-line was “Graduated Harvard,” is pursuing an acting career; his plan for spending his share of the $250,000 grand prize includes such geeky things as paying rent...
...Fairness” has long been a coveted prize from the political grab bag of vacuous words. Conservatives invoke “fairness” when claiming that the top quintile of income earners already pays 66.6 percent of federal taxes. Liberals fire back that the Bush tax cuts—which gave the richest one percent of Americans an average rebate of $75,800, and middle-income families a mere $1,100—are grossly “unfair.” Each claim is no doubt true, but they appeal to two distinct, and incommensurable, conceptions...