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...certificate in the advanced study of mathematics, focusing on theoretical physics and applied math but also plans to continue singing. He said that he takes special pride in the fact that Isaac Newton lived in the same College when at Cambridge. “I also want to row and play cricket and have tea and sherry,” Blazek said.Members of the selection committee knocked on the winners’ dorm-room doors last Saturday evening to announce the good news—all except for Blazek. In his case, they interrupted his Glee Club rehearsal...
...boss and his Faculty, who have resolved to resist the president. The standoff ended over intersession, when the dean announced he would step down at the end of the academic year, but the tension that cost Kirby his job was four years in the making.Even those with front-row seats to the divisions between Summers and Kirby differ in their portrayals of the factors that led to the dean’s resignation. Policy issues, ranging from the curricular review to Faculty finances to the central administration’s agenda to consolidate power over the University, sharpened tensions between...
...Sitting in the front row of the spectator's gallery, Richard Flesher, a retired social studies teacher from Hinsdale, Ill., had the same questions. After a recent trip to the Middle East, Flesher was curious if any of his phone calls or emails to the region are now in the NSA's database and sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out. The NSA responded that they could neither confirm nor deny that they intercepted copies of his communications. He's written an appeal and is still waiting for an answer. "It's not about getting money...
...very different. Beijing employs a force of 30,000 Internet censors 24/7, blocking access to many sites expressing nonapproved opinions on hot-button issues like Taiwanese independence and the Falun Gong religious sect. When Western Web surfers search for images of "Tiananmen" on Google, they get row upon row of tanks, the indelible afterimage of the tragedy of 1989. Do the same search when you're in China, and you get a snapshot of U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and his wife posing in Tiananmen Square on a p.r. trip...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team that cheered alone after winning its last dual meet of the season against Princeton and Yale yesterday.The Crimson (10-0, 7-0 Ivy) breezed through its last dual meet of the season, and its 20th in a row, by beating the Tigers (5-2, 5-1 Ivy) 203 to 116 and the Bulldogs (7-4, 2-4 Ivy) 252 to 67.After day one, Harvard already had a significant lead over its big rival, Princeton, with Yale trailing far behind in the last spot.“Princeton is a really great...