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...blend of brilliance, drive, competitiveness and personal intensity." That is also a pretty apt description of Walter. Like Gates, Isaacson attended Harvard, where he studied computing while majoring in history and literature. Unlike Gates, he graduated (in 1974) and then went to Oxford for two years as a Rhodes scholar. While in England he worked at London's Sunday Times, before returning to his native New Orleans to work as a reporter at the New Orleans States-Item. While there he also bought his first personal computer, a Kaypro...
...other side is where the beginners sit, speaking less confidently as they learn by osmosis. While the only Latin most of us know is “veritas,” experts at the Latin table can speak freely about things like house life. To ease conversation, one Latin scholar has compiled a list of Harvard-related terms translated into Latin. Quadlings can tell Virgil they live in the Tetragonum and freshmen can tell Augustus that they dwell in Area Harvardiana. Last week, participants also discussed dentistry. “O medicum malum!” was Siena T. Koncsol?...
...Kyle was a remarkable young man, a true scholar-athlete, an ambassador for Penn, a tremendous teammate and leader on and off the field, as well as a caring and outstanding brother,” Bagnoli said...
...Meanwhile, Beijing has ordered newspapers to cease coverage of Taishi. "The central government may not approve of the excessive tactics of the local government," writes Fan Yafeng, a legal scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "but it basically wants the situation controlled." Lu says he'll take his work elsewhere, despite the risk. "Other places can benefit from my experience," he says, "and I've bought life insurance...
...Kathryn J. Edin and St. Joseph’s University Assistant Professor Maria Kefalas of committing “conceptual plagiarism” in their 2005 book “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Choose Motherhood Over Marriage.” Bershady claimed that the two scholars had taken ideas without proper acknowledgement from works by Penn’s Day Professor of Social Sciences Elijah Anderson.Bershady circulated the allegations even though he was aware that Anderson and Edin had already resolved their differences over “Promises,” according to a statement...