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...weeks ago after suffering from cardiac arrest while engaging in one of his favorite pastimes, horseback riding. He was 80 years old. Manne, who received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and lectured at the College immediately following his graduate work, spent much of his professional life at Stanford University, working in the Department of Management Science and Engineering.After time at Stanford and Yale, he came back to Harvard briefly, from 1974 to 1976, as a professor of political economy at the Kennedy School of Government. He then went back to Stanford and taught until his retirement in 1992.Although Manne...
Widely recruited out of high school by Stanford, the University of North Carolina, and other Ivy League schools, the native of Moraga, California initially considered Stanford his top choice. But after an overhaul of the entire Stanford coaching staff and a postgraduate year at Phillips Exeter, Harvard became a natural fit for Breaux...
...Yagan, who studied Applied Mathematics as an undergraduate at Harvard and later received his MBA from Stanford, said that the file-sharing debate should be focused on the industry as a whole rather than the legality of individual file-sharing...
...planning the less publicized Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)--a twin-satellite pas de deux designed to measure Earth's gravitational field and its effect on ocean currents. A critical step was eliminating any wobble between the ships. J.P.L. staff members had been working with engineers at Stanford University on a thruster that could nudge a spacecraft with boiled-off helium. It was perfect for GRACE's needs. "At J.P.L.," says Rob Manning, Mars program manager and former chief engineer for the Pathfinder mission, "anybody can go to any meeting and criticize or comment...
...increase in competitiveness of the league’s offer relative to that of comparable schools (Patriot teams and I-A squads like Vanderbilt, Duke and Stanford) would likely allow the Ivies to sign a slightly larger portion of their primary targets than they can under the current system. The cost would be substantial, however, and a similar gain could be made by instituting the aforementioned “free” rule changes that would make participation in Ivy athletics—specifically, football—more attractive...