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What do Bill Gates and Edwin H. Land have in common? Both are innovators in their fields. And both are Harvard dropouts. The lesser known of the two, Edwin H. Land, who died in 1991, was the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Though he left Harvard in 1926, he obtained 500 patents (then second only to Thomas Edison), revolutionized the field of polarized lenses, and invented the Polaroid camera, according to the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
This bluff and vigorous Ford film, based on the Edwin O'Connor roman ŕ clef about four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, winks at the chicanery involved in getting into office and staying there. Spencer Tracy, right, is Frank Skeffington, on his final run for a job he believes is his by divine right. Doing favors, making deals, smiting enemiesto Frank, that's just politics. Has anything changed in 50 years? The big-city machine the film elegizes may be gone, but the malady lingers...
...publicly wondered what had happened to their hawkish prince, Abe's adjustments paved the way for his East Asian summits and offered reassurance that, unlike Koizumi, he won't let ideology get in the way of national interest. "Abe is a political realist," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "His foreign policy will be more multi-directional...
...Taro Aso, his only opponents, are way behind?means he has been able to run a cautious, purposefully vague campaign, releasing a policy platform that runs to just four pages. "Right now he has the ability to be all things to all people," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "But that will narrow over time." What's certain is that Abe's agenda will be as long as his track record is short: repairing relations with Japan's Asian neighbors, continuing Koizumi's uneven economic reforms, fending...
...made more money from poker than from working on the road crew,” said Gale Mosteller. “A clear incentive to learn the odds and play well.”In college Mosteller became even more interested in probability when he met a math professor, Edwin G. Olds, at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics. Mosteller later went on to receive his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University.During his sophomore year at CMU, Mosteller encountered a question in one of his classes that...