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...Faust is seen walking through Tercentenary Theater towards Loeb House, where the Board of Overseers is currently meeting. She tells a Crimson reporter that she is "pretty excited." At the corner of Loeb House, she says, "I'd better kiss my husband." She turns back to her husband, Monrad Professor of Social Sciences Charles Rosenberg. They kiss, and he tells her, "Knock 'em dead." As she waits for the door of Loeb House to open for her, she jokes, "Hope there's room...
...Overseers’ approval of Harvard historian Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president forthcoming, observers of the process offer a number of explanations as to why the most promising candidates from outside Cambridge did not seem interested in Mass. Hall’s corner office: poor timing, the reputation of Harvard’s faculty, the looming giant of Allston, and the intense media scrutiny.The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Tufts all denied interest in Harvard’s top job. Some did so with a gust of humor...
...Simon Jones, Vice President of product development at Plastic Logic, his company's mission comes down to this simple but startling question: "What if you could print electronics on just about anything at very low cost?" A corner office at the Cambridge, U.K., firm is filled with models of products that could be built: hospital bracelets synched to update when info is added to a medical file, musical scores that refresh so you'd never need to turn a page and a series of portable text displays. That, says Jones, is what happens when you can make circuits not from...
That would be Uncle Sam. Yes, there are purely private jobs in the region: drive among the dense thickets of office buildings in Tyson's Corner and along the Dulles Toll Road, and you see some impressive corporate HQs--Capital One, Freddie Mac, Gannett, Sprint Nextel. But you also come across mysterious acronyms like BAE, CSC, MITRE and SAIC. These are big-time government contractors, and when Fuller looks closely at job growth in the area, it is mainly these that he sees...
...power play, following a holding penalty called on sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt.But Vaillancourt immediately redeemed herself when she left the penalty box, receiving the puck from co-captain Julie Chu and threading a nifty pass to sophomore Jenny Brine. Brine ripped a shot into the top-left corner of the net. The goal was Brine’s team-leading 22nd goal of the season.Both teams played tough defense until the end of regulation, sending the game into sudden death tied at 3-3.The first overtime saw both teams unable to capitalize on scoring opportunities. On the Eagles’ end, Stack...