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Kates also worked persistently to get the job he wanted. In the spring of his senior year at Wesleyan University, the Bain consulting firm rejected his interview request. He immediately wrote back, telling them they would regret their mistake. “It ain’t over till it’s over,” he wrote, quoting Yogi Berra. He ultimately got the interview and a position...
During a mid-1880s visit to Shamian, the Shaoguan-based Wesleyan missionary John Turner described "a beautiful island, fronted with lawns and flower gardens, with the foreign consular and merchants' houses standing behind them, on either side of an avenue of banyan trees." That quaint scene greets today's visitors, too, thanks largely to late-'90s restoration, a combination of government and private initiatives. All of the old buildings now bear plaques describing their history, which makes a walking tour of the 3-sq-km island both possible and pleasant...
Before joining the Crimson in 1998, Tall held coaching positions at Northeastern, Cornell and his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan...
...critics, such arguments seem like moral fig leaves. They view cc as an ethical dry run for human cloning, and they're troubled by how the rehearsal is going. "Once cloning is on its own as a commercial enterprise, there really is no oversight," says Lori Gruen, a Wesleyan University ethics professor who generally supports cloning research. Could a culture that can't agree on the morality of using human embryos to create stem cells tolerate a technology in which 86 human embryos have to die to create an 87th? "Why do it?" asks Pacelle. "It seems...
...fact that dissent is being suppressed anywhere means that it could happen in your hometown,” said Wesleyan junior Abe J. Walker, one of the arrested students...