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...generation of collapsibles--bikes that, thanks to a few strategic hinges and latches, can pretzel themselves down to the size of a suitcase--combines hipness and high function, not to mention the ability to fit easily into a closet. "I won't ride a standard bike anymore," says Channell Wasson of Foldabikes.com who has been selling folders for more than 15 years, and riding them even longer. "We call them cumbersomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Know When to Fold 'Em | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...students, because students will not be challenged by the University and instead succumb to the well-trodden easy routes to the diploma. Nearly all the writers in the compilation envision the ideal product of the Harvard education as self-directed “citizen-leaders,” as Wasson argues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Curricular Review Essays Stack Up Favorably to Profss | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...personally see a dangerous gap between science and the social sciences,” said Winn Wasson ’05, a social studies concentrator planning to participate in the Student Pugwash chapter. “You have the politicians who may not know the scientific implications of their actions, and you have the scientists who don’t know the social implications of their research. We hope to help bridge that...

Author: By Christina M. Anderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Group To Link Sciences, Humanities | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

There are many excellent performances in Man of La Mancha. Tony Martinez, who recently celebrated his two-thousandth performance as Sancho, is indeed a Sancho among Sanchos. He sings a charismatic version of the humorous "I Really Like Him." The Padre (David Wasson) gives a beautiful rendition of "To Each His Dulcinea," expressing unerringly the simplistic ideal of the show: "How lovely life would seem if every man could weave a dream to keep him from despair...

Author: By Amanda Silber, | Title: Star-Studded Cast Big Draw For Man of La Mancha at the Colonial Theater in Boston | 3/20/1992 | See Source »

Should they be convicted, Wasson and Pulliam will join a growing army of felons in the financial industry. The majority of the crimes, including fraudulent land deals, payouts to bogus borrowers and lavish living at depositors' expense, have been uncovered in Texas and California, where financial institutions grew especially fast in the early 1980s. But the problem is by no means restricted to those states. A report issued in January by the Comptroller of the Currency found that in 35% of the 189 U.S. bank failures from 1979 to 1987, fraud or insider abuse was "a significant factor." Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Rob Banks Without a Gun | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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