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...junior year. Traditionally, actors have served as the presidents, but both Ur’s predecessor and successor are techies.Ur has a theory about that shift: “We [techies] are so used to thinking of the arts in an infrastructural way, thinking about how to make stuff happen. I guess we make good administrators.”A computer science concentrator, Ur says that the problem-solving abilities he has gained from his studies and experience have enhanced the productions he’s worked on and made him a better president. “That gave...
...glass ceiling is much less than in academia—in the real world you have to solve problems so you get talent from wherever you can find it,” says Capasso. “But I think she’s so damn good that this stuff is going to be irrelevant...
...personally don’t drink a lot, so they told me stuff I know,” said attendee Chimdimnma “Chi Chi” C. Esimai...
...vast preponderance of data, it's not about the harshness of the techniques, it's about smart people. We don't believe in torture. Look, this is a country of laws. There's authorization. There's legal opinions. We did this by the numbers. We corroborate this stuff. We have other sources. There are plot lines that are broken. They give us enormous access and understanding of al-Qaeda, insights into operatives that we didn't know about. Enormous value to us. Huge insight. You want to talk about connecting dots, you connect dots as you have never before...
...Your genome—the stuff that tells each of your cells what to do—will no longer be just your business. What others can do with that information, however, will hopefully be limited by the law. Already, there is limited protection: The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act prevents some, but not all, group insurers from charging different rates based on genetic information, according to a 2006 Connecticut Law Review article by Seton Hall law professor Gaia Bernstein. What is needed is a more explicitly comprehensive law banning insurer and employer discrimination—like...