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Today, with U2 in town for a show at Madison Square Garden, Bono has the rare treat of staying in one of his homes, a three-story penthouse he purchased from Steve Jobs. (He also has places in Dublin and the south of France.) He lounges beneath a giant Christo drawing of The Gates (not Bill and Melinda but the Central Park installation), surrounded by art books. It's a lovely day to do nothing, but that's not really an option."I get very little time entirely alone," he says, moments before six people appear in the living room...
...tutoring. Kevin W. Gan ’07, who tutors in chemistry and Social Analysis 10, “Introduction to Economics,” said he has received several requests to tutor, which makes it easy to find a job. “It’s rarely the case that if I respond to an e-mail saying that I want a student that I don’t get the student,” Gan said. Even when he doesn’t respond to the BSC’s requests immediately, Gan said, he can still...
...Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window into the inner workings of efforts by the Harvard development machine to maintain its donor relationships. The donors’ names were revealed in a December 2004 document containing prepared text to be used in handwritten Post-It notes from DEAS Dean and Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...motion. According to Nweeia’s website, www.narwhal.org, the tusk is actually a tooth, shaped like a spiraled rod, which projects out of the male’s upper jaw through its lips and ranges six to nine feet in length. According to the site, it is very rare for a female to have a tusk. William Fitzhugh—director of The Arctic Studies Center (ASC), which is part of the Smithsonian Institution—explained the significance of Nweeia’s findings. He noted that, since salt water freezes four degrees lower than fresh water...
Some people are exactly what they seem, some people are fronting, and then there are the rare few who fit in neither category. Jannie S. Tsuei ’06 is one of the rare ones. She’s not a ditz (she just smiles a lot), but she’s not hiding an inner anger or hatred, either...