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...Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed the secondary field. Development in the area, which formally began with the creation of the committee in 1978, has been slower than at many other universities, Scanlan said. Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, and Stanford, for instance, offer programs in drama. “I think it’s a great step forward,” said Daniel R. Pecci ’09, who has been involved with 16 college productions and has written a play that will open in Berlin in December...
...under copyright protection. Over a million books are affected by the project, though that is a fraction of the University’s holdings of over 15.8 million volumes. The Internet search firm is also collaborating with other university libraries in the project, including those at Princeton and Stanford Universities...
...corporate heads conducted by Vistage, an international organization of ceos, poll takers reported that 43% of the people who occupy the big chair in boardrooms are firstborns, 33% are middle-borns and 23% are last-borns. Eldest siblings are disproportionately represented among surgeons and M.B.A.s too, according to Stanford University psychologist Robert Zajonc. And a recent study found a statistically significant overload of firstborns in what is-or at least ought to be-the country's most august club: the U.S. Congress. "We know that birth order determines occupational prestige to a large extent," says Zajonc. "There is some expectation...
...writer is Taube Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...
...Charles R. Nesson ’60, GPSTS aims to “create an open online curriculum centered on poker that will draw the brightest minds together,” according to the group’s online statement. The GPSTS currently has chapters organized at Stanford, UCLA, and Brown, in addition to Harvard and Yale. Nesson and third-year law student Andrew M. Woods, the interim president of the HLS chapter, said that the group hoped to change the reputation of poker from one of illegal gambling to that of a valuable educational tool. “Poker...