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...hope my inference is clear. The A’s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often...
...Carswell’s further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious...
...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of widespread criticism of comments made by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers. In a speech to an economics conference, Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...
...Choi belongs to SK Telecom T1, a video-game team whose 20 members practice and live together in two shared luxurious apartments in a skyscraper in Seoul's financial district. For some 350 days a year, the young men wake at 10 a.m, jog for an hour, and then hit their computers or PCs, taking an hour off for lunch and another for dinner, and finally calling it a day at 3 a.m. (The gamers claim they play at their best just after midnight.) They don't spend much time outside their building, and when they do leave...
...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of widespread criticism of comments made by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. In a speech to an economics conference, Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...