Word: student
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard in 1965, Gore couldn't be completely insular. It was difficult for any student to escape the daily barrage of national and international affairs. The war in Vietnam had just begun to receive intense, critical coverage in the national media...
...after day, The Crimson printed Associated Press stories on troop deployments. Cambridge and Boston experienced racial and ethnic unrest. Not a week went without news of a new Vietnam protest in Cambridge or Boston by student groups...
Back in the dorm room, Gore was a methodical planner, never seeming to worry much about tests or term papers. Although Gore's staff declined to release his grades or a transcript of his courses, friends said they recall Gore as a superior student. His grades were high enough to qualify him for the Honors Program in government, which allowed him to write a thesis...
Gore would leave Cambridge at night for one reason: to court Tipper, who was then a student at Boston University...
...Internet servers that allow surfers to bypass Windows are also on the rise. As one venture capitalist at Accel Partners puts it, "in the past six months, we have not seen a business plan for a conventional packaged software application." Sounds surprising, perhaps, but how else could a single student from Helsinki hobble together a few thousand lines of code that turned into Linux, an operating system with millions of users currently being shipped on IBM and Compaq PC's? The only real barriers to entry in the operating systems market are a mind, a modem and, arguably, a garage...