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...could be useful to have a student in the room to say, ‘Gee, that made sense to me’ or ‘That seemed off-base,’” O’Keefe said...
That beleaguered film enthusiast wouldn’t be entirely off base. Before Good Will Hunting, before A Beautiful Mind, there was It’s My Turn—a decidedly lame 1980 flick in which Clayburgh plays Dr. Kate Gunzinger, a beautiful young math professor stuck in a frustrating romance with stuffy Charles Grodin. “At last, Mr. Wrong,” the video’s cover cries. Clayburgh cavorts and spars with bad boy Michael Douglas while struggling for a breakthrough proof that will, she insists, put her on par with Euclid and Newton...
...were Spanish and German and now Chilean. It’s interesting to me that when you want to really insult someone in Chile, you call them a “Peruano,” or resident of Peru. The insult’s sting comes not just from base nationalism, but a level of racism as well. The Peruvians in Chile are not the rich or the powerful or the white, but the indigenous women who come to serve as maids in upper class Chilean households. With this understanding of who “Peruvians?...
...based contact has typically been popular in the past. The “Harvard Monthly,” an online newsletter, has 140,000 subscribers from an alumni base of 319,000, according to Tiedemann...
...wrote that scientists must now begin to determine which activities could feasibly be separated from the current FAS science base in Cambridge...