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...most nostalgic bit: homework (a.k.a. busywork) assigned after each class. Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” promises to explain the inner workings of every little electronic gizmo in your house from telephones to CDs. This class is interesting and manageable (remember the days of group projects?), unless you’re bad at quantitative reasoning, in which case, no matter how well you kept up with the problem sets and the course notes (there is no textbook), the final will bite you in the ass. QR 20, “Computers and Computing?...
...schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate the source of the voice: that of reclusive novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), whose current project is a book, about an I.R.S. agent named Harold Crick, called Death and Taxes. Harold fears that when she completes the novel, he'll die. Which is fine by Hilbert, a great admirer of Eiffel. "You have to die," he tells Harold. "It's her masterpiece...
Manoogian added that the Straus Center “wasn’t able to make any conclusions about her theory” after the project was completed...
...It’s not for us to prove or disprove her theory,” said a spokesman for Harvard University Art Museums, Daron Manoogian. “As a research and conservation center we certainly thought it was an interesting project to take part...
...David Greenberg, a Rutgers journalism professor and an organizer of the project, is optimistic about the blog’s future...