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After playing for the Crimson in 1995-96, Rich--originally from Salt Lake City, Utah--took a two-year leave of absence from Harvard for his Mormon mission...
Malan, who did not even begin programming until he took Computer Sciences 50, "Introduction to Computer Science I" during his sophomore year, says the inspiration for Shuttleboy came from a friend who wrote a short program a few years ago that displayed the Quad shuttle schedule...
...went to high school in the town of Princeton, took a course at the university and lived approximately two minutes from campus. My decision not to attend Princeton, whose intimacy appealed to me very much at the time, was influenced by this great familiarity. What I realized in my first and second years here, though, is that Harvard is a fantastic, dynamic university, with unique opportunities; and that, contrary to what I believed as a senior in high school, Princeton would not have been the right place...
...Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as RICK SANTORUM of Pennsylvania and Daniel Coats of Indiana. On Friday, Clinton will preside at a White House swearing-in ceremony marking the program's 100,000th member--a benchmark the Peace Corps took more than 20 years to reach...
DIED. FRANK YANKOVIC, 83, a.k.a. America's Polka King, maestro of Midwestern dance halls for seven decades who won the first ever Grammy for the folksy musical genre; in New Port Richey, Fla. Yankovic pumped his first accordion at age nine and soon took his signature Slovenian-style polka show on the road. Devoted fans, some known to have ripped off his clothes, won his devotion in return: he played so many one-night stands that he missed the birth of all 10 of his kids...