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...topic of female underrepresentation in design fields became a springboard for students to air wider-ranging grievances at a panel discussion at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) last night...
Four Ivy road games left the Bears at 2-2, just a point away from having taken three. The return home was supposed to be the springboard to a rise...
Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 won Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair, a position seen as a springboard to the UC presidency. Four of the past five UC presidents have held this office, but as a junior, Chadbourne cannot run for next year’s presidency...
...shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more than a debt-ridden, old-school phone company...
Felicity's romantic drama did not seem like a springboard to an action series like Alias, whose typical plot has Garner going into a European nightclub dressed like a hooker and blowing something up. But Abrams is the sort of storyteller who seems to want to tell every kind of story and have every job. He even composes music for his shows (he plays several instruments, including guitar, keyboard and cello) and not only wrote Alias' throbbing techno theme but also designed the credits sequence. In his spare time, he's directing Mission: Impossible 3 as well as developing...