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...isn’t there something to be lost in expecting to gain too much? “Right now, my idealism is high-risk, high-reward,” Coughlin says. “I’m young. If you’re not idealistic when you’re young, there’s something wrong with...
After finishing first out of 13 teams—including rival MIT—at the 2002 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest’s Northeastern regional competition, the club’s reward is a March trip to the ACM’s World Finals in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...this year's winner, Gonzalez-Foerster must be hoping to generate the buzz that Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread got from their Turners. The French prize, first awarded last year, is worth €35,000, and Gonzalez-Foerster will gain more valuable exposure from the other half of her reward: her show at the Pompidou, which runs until...
...raft’s single engine drowned out her voice: She kept complaining about Vietnam’s Third World status, evidenced, she thought, by its lack of Diet Coke. I got here by accepting a Let’s Go job backpacking through Borneo and the Philippines. My reward for completing the itinerary was an open-ended airline ticket. I came seeking to confirm my mother’s stories, to see where my father had fought during the war and to meet my Vietnamese relatives for the first time. My sister came because she had finally accumulated enough...
Time passes and paths cross. But Birdie and Finus never do get together. Unlike in Gabriel García Márquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera, the ill-starred couple never are united, even as a reward for outliving their circumstantial adversaries—their spouses...