Word: strings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Niall Murphy made his name well-known throughout recruiting circles as a quarterback for Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, where he started for three years. Tomorrow, however, he moves to the other side of the ball and will begin his Harvard career as the second-string free safety, backing up senior Ben Green...
Because of freshman activities week, the Crimson offense has had to practice against the first string defense. Harvard's defense, with eight senior starters, should have been excellent preparation...
Juan M. Maldacena, the Cabot associate professor of physics, was awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship for $245,000 last Thursday for his work with string theory. Days later, he accepted an offer of tenure and will become one of the youngest professors in the department...
...academic stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre of parents are wondering whether home schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting...
Throw another burger on the grill, Martha. Just in time for Labor Day, some surprisingly good labor news sent Wall Street traders off to the Hamptons happy. After spending a glum week worried that a string of less-than-positive economic numbers would spook the Federal Reserve into yet another rate hike in October, traders were wishing and hoping that the August unemployment numbers would show that inflationary pressures had already been brought to heel. The news was even better than they hoped: Unemployment was down, but not too much, and hourly wages were up, but by just pennies...