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It’s hard to know what to say to either of these people. It’s rare, I imagine, that owners of vandalized property get to question the vandals, and rarer still that when they do the only power they possess is the ability to ask nicely for reprieve. I expect that “Unknown Core” won’t bother us anymore—ultimately, they (college students themselves, if I understood them correctly) sympathized with our frustrations. And if we’re ever attacked by someone with more political intentions...
Joseph D. Harris, Higgens professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department, notes that while a transition into Hollywood consulting may be rare, mathematicians have commonly made the transition from academics to areas such as finance in the past...
...Machida's strategy of focusing on businesses in which the company has a significant edge is surprisingly rare in corporate Japan, where a bias toward bulking up still reigns. Says Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology Japan, a tech consultancy in Tokyo: "The Toshibas and Hitachis of this world are in about 20 or 30 different industry areas. There is no focus." Even in secondary business lines, Sharp tries to develop what it calls "one-of-a-kind" products. A recent example: the new Healsio oven that reduces fat and salt content by cooking with superheated steam. The oven...
...moment of rare and beautiful paradox. Harvard’s baseball games had never seemed more trivial. But its baseball team—and the human bonds that hold it together—had never seemed more important...
...Last week's attacks came four days after Mubarak unofficially opened his presidential campaign with a three-part, seven-hour interview broadcast on state-run television. Titled "A Statement for History" and billed as a rare look at Mubarak's human side, it showed a relaxed leader discussing his life in the Air Force, ascension to high office in 1981 and polices as president over the last quarter century. But many Egyptians reacted with disappointment, seeing the interview as self-serving propaganda that signaled Mubarak's determination to celebrate the status quo rather than embrace the need for change. Mubarak...