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Last week the answer came: an explosion that hurled Perot off the GM board of directors and into the headlines. At a session that Perot agreed to skip, the other members of the GM board voted unanimously to buy back his 11.3 million shares of company stock for $700 million. In effect, they told the brash Texan that he could take his money and his loud mouth and go away...
...Professor Skip Gates burger, named for W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., is the only remaining gourmet burger named after a current Harvard affiliate...
...wasn’t always this way. Time was that we’d get to skip out on almost an entire section’s worth of material to fill out paper evaluations in class. When the College administration finally put the CUE online in the spring of 2005, however, we traded in a free period for an impressive volume of spam. It’s all well intentioned, of course, but the effort nonetheless comes up short. Though recent CUE reform efforts have focused on tweaking the content of the online forms and on mandating the participation...
...links on Wikipedia was similar to the way Physics 15a was taught. As a teaching fellow, Wissner-Gross thought to capitalize on this similarity, and created a new search process to help students quickly and efficiently organize physics concepts explained in Wikipedia. “Students very often skip recommended reading, and find resources on the Internet to help with understanding material,” he said. “I thought it might be interesting to short-circuit that process by automating it with software.” To do this, Wissner-Gross developed a program that generates reading...
...foot. Harvard may be an elite institution open only to a lucky few, yet it seems to exacerbate, rather than mollify, concerns about status. The product of this anxiety is frequent displays of contempt for the institution. We pee (figuratively) on things all the time: we skip classes, we are contemptuous of the entire education system, and we constantly bemoan the inadequacy of the social life. Peeing on John Harvard is like walking through the front door of your final club while everyone else has to wait outside. It’s what this place is all about...