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...university in the world for the second year running by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in rankings released last week. The British publication’s rankings placed American institutions in 12 of the top 20 slots. MIT came in second ahead of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Stanford University. All those universities were ranked higher this year than last, when THES first issued its rankings. University of California, Berkeley, ranked second last year, fell four spots to number six in this year’s edition. The rankings were based on a several criteria including reviews by peer...
...veterans. “The job lends itself to people with raw intelligence rather than industry experience. And if you’re coming out of college, you have a really good idea of what facebook is.” Zuckerberg said he has made similar recruiting trips to Stanford and Berkeley. He will recruit at MIT today before heading back to facebook.com’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. He said working for a startup company like facebook.com should be considered a viable alternative to consulting or investment banking, two of the most popular career paths...
...back-to-back Ivy League titles. The Big Green has struggled since then, especially last year when it went 1-9, the worst record in school history. As a result, the program fired coach John Lyons and rehired Teevens.Prior to returning to Hanover, Teevens was the head coach at Stanford, in the powerful Pac-10 conference. The team only went 10-23 in his three seasons, but it last year came as close as anyone to beating undefeated national champion USC.Teevens has more ties to Dartmouth then just coaching there. He was the Ivy player of the year...
...array of possibilities, we are surprisingly satisfied with Bush’s latest appointment of Ben S. Bernanke ’75. Bernanke’s résume is impressive. After graduating summa cum laude from the College, he received his Ph.D. at MIT and taught at Stanford and Princeton. Widely known as an expert on monetary policy, Bernanke served as a Fed governor for two years, and for the past 10 months has been chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He is well liked and respected by other economists and his colleagues, regardless of their political...
...practice of digitally scanning copyrighted works from several libraries, including Harvard’s, without the publisher’s permission.The AAP’s filing is the second lawsuit this fall against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory judgment from the court about the interpretation of copyright law.“The copyright laws say that...