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...They are really playing up the Harvard student as a one dimensional bookworm, and Bill O’Reilly went to the K-School after all—he doesn’t even know the Harvard undergraduates,” Corker said...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Fun Czar’ Corker Subject of Media Frenzy | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

...blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tortoise and the Hare | 7/13/2004 | See Source »

...process. Keep the guards to check IDs and search the occasional student who sets off the CVS-style anti-shoplifting buzzers. And we should stop there. No more useless bag checks, no more wasted time. Just keep those CVS buzzers up and running to catch the occasional over-avid bookworm. After all, if they’re good enough to stop shoplifters, they’re good enough to keep the best and the brightest from pilfering a few books...

Author: By The Editors, THE EDITORS | Title: Dartboard | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...weekend! I ask teammates when we’re throwing that party where we only invite athletes and keep out the bookworm Lamont-bound students. Quizzical looks all around, followed by isolation...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rahooligan: Thanks, Larry (Or, My Seven Weeks Off) | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

Even before he abruptly quit professional basketball, Bison Dele was a 6-ft. 10-in. enigma. He was powerful on the basketball court, but off it he was reserved. He loved skydiving, but he was also a bookworm who spent hours poring over art and philosophy texts. He earned millions but was known to arrive at work on a skateboard. And in 1998 he changed his given name, Brian Williams, to Bison Dele, as a tribute to his Native American and African ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother, Where Art Thou? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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