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...little desire to break out of the shadow of his father, Arthur Kornberg, the winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for medicine. Though he began his studies as an English Literature concentrator, Kornberg said, “In the back of my mind, there was no serious doubt that I’d be going to graduate school in chemistry.” As a first year, he tried to enroll in a series of high-level chemistry courses, but he was not immediately accepted because he had never studied calculus. “What I gained at Harvard...
...quick pace of the songs and the energetic guitar riffs would be appropriate at the next on-campus party but do not camouflage the serious tone of the lyrics, which would not seem out of place in the newest piece of teen-angst literature, if such literature were more literate...
...serious musician what they plan on doing “for a living,” and you’ll likely be rewarded with awkward, side-long glances, sweaty palms, and a hushed, “I don’t know…uh, maybe consulting?” For in a time-honored tradition, both at Harvard and beyond, it has continued to be difficult for musicians—and artists in general, for that matter—to declare a creative calling: forget about the money, what about the social implications? Yet, for some, music becomes...
...Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...
...SEARCH IS ONIn January, his predecessor, Sybil N. Knight, announced that she would step down as principal of the school on July 1 in order to accept a job offer as an assistant superintendent in Harrisburg, Pa.During Knight’s four-year tenure, the high school encountered serious educational hurdles. It was placed on probation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and its scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) standardized tests lagged behind similar schools. Knight came to the school in 2002 after the then-acting principal, Paula M. Evans, resigned amidst a controversial...