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...award for Best Acceptance Speech goes, ex aequo, to two Cambridge grads. Baron Cohen simultaneously raised the bar for gross-out verbal art and the hackles of NBC censors when he said that, in making Borat, "I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America... I refer of course to the anus and testicles of my costar Ken Davitian. Ken, when I was in that scene and I... saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, I better win a bloody award for this." He then described, in awesome olfactory detail...
...incidence of one too many false fire alarms prompted Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to send out a courteous but stern letter to undergraduates last week, reminding them that they could be expelled for tampering with fire safety equipment. The day after Gross penned the letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount...
...place. My education—including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements—has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...
...world of finance, that was one happy Old Year. Whether they were buying Indian real estate or Brazilian commodities, traders and investors made serious money. Profits at Goldman Sachs exceeded the gross domestic product of Bolivia...
Last spring, Harvard Physics graduate student Alexander D. Wissner-Gross noticed something about the way the course material was structured in a Physics course for which he was a Teaching Fellow. While looking for supplementary readings for his students in Physics 15a, “Introductory Mechanics and Relativity,” Wissner-Gross noticed that the way information was connected by links on Wikipedia was similar to the way Physics 15a was taught. As a teaching fellow, Wissner-Gross thought to capitalize on this similarity, and created a new search process to help students quickly and efficiently organize physics...