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...Will it never end?" ALEX TREBEK, host of TV's Jeopardy!, on bionic contestant Ken Jennings' record 38-show winning streak...
Granted, most teaching fellows do lack the quick wit and dashing good looks of Alex Trebek. And, I must admit, Harvard has yet to fulfill my requests to hold my sections in a television studio, or distribute cash prizes to my students who write “A” papers (you see, the endowment would run out too quickly, since 47 percent of all students expect to receive A grades). But I simply cannot sit in silence when Freinberg claims that section participation is superfluous or that final exams are designed to prompt wholesale regurgitation of professors?...
...Yalie stayed silent as host Alex Trebek told them that the correct answer was “What is beige?” and quipped, “They called it cosmic latte...
...after meeting Trebek in person, Naam also chalked up the host’s patented on-screen charm to the show’s producers...
...faced with that prospect anytime soon, Mary N. Naam ’05—one of the contestants slated to compete in Jeopardy’s College Championships—is in a unique position to do so. Some might expect her to hit Trebek with questions such as “Who is Antigone?” or “What is the Maginot Line?” (as she should, given that money and a Volvo are at stake), but I wish she’d ask him some of life’s more important...