Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American science majors eating lunch in a University of California Irvine dining hall are on the brink of brilliant careers. Aisha Kennedy, a chemistry major, has done ozone research with a Nobel-prizewinning professor. John Williams, a biology major, is off to Kenya this summer for a project on malaria transmission. And Brian McCurtis, a computer-science major with a summer job at Novell, is seeing years of hard work pay off. "I'd say my biggest problem is sifting through the job offers," he says. "There's been no job hunting...
Critics of the Kosovo project--some of whom said we should stay out, some of whom said we should go in with ground troops, many of whom managed to say both these things, and all of whom predicted that the Serbs would never cave--are bitter. Slobodan Milosevic betrayed them! Doesn't he watch the Sunday talk shows? Doesn't he know that air power never works? Has he forgotten that he represents a centuries-old tradition of ethnic violence? Where is that quagmire he was supposed to produce...
Canaday is ugly. Its functional, housing-project architecture won't be featured on any Harvard postcards, but most Canaday rooms have three bedrooms for four people in addition to a common room. That means each student can enjoy a single for one semester...
...very excited to get have the time to concentrate and focus and put this thing together. When you're teaching... it's really hard to get the time to devote to a project," she said...
...their bosses continue to cheer them on. "They're like the Sex Pistols," says Doug Herzog, the president of Fox, who used to run Comedy Central. "They're the closest thing to rock stars I've encountered in the television business." Perhaps their ultimate punk statement is their next project: the prequel to Dumb and Dumber. "That," says Parker, "was pretty much just for the money...