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...pairing service, says Coyne, was inspired by a classmate’s software to help seniors seeking their hook-up for the Last Chance Dance—an annual event that gives seniors a final opportunity to lock lips with that unrequited crush. The site, which counts over a half-million active users, according to Yagan, is noted for its algorithm that produces “match percentages” based on user-submitted questions on everything from smoking habits to religion. Yagan, an Applied Mathematics and Economics concentrator, used his college know-how to carve a niche...
When Deborah Bial answered her phone in a rental car in Chicago, the unfamiliar voice on the other end asked the founder of a nonprofit for urban high school graduates if she were alone and sitting down. He then told her that she would be receiving a half-million dollar grant through the MacArthur Fellows Program...
...didn't remain one for long. Even though you won't find it at your local Blockbuster or Barnes & Noble, it is selling briskly through new-age bookstores, New Thought churches like Unity and Agape and its own website www.thesecret.tv. In a little over six months more than a half-million units of the DVD have shipped; it ranked in Amazon's Top 5 sellers during Christmas week; and a tie-in hardcover book just cracked the Top 10 on the New York Times bestseller list...
...finance committee (FiCom). This is the case because the administration of finances and grants is not what motivated most of them to be on the UC—advocacy is. We shouldn’t have hard working advocates where they do not belong—managing a nearly half-million dollar grant process, providing student services, or planning important social events...
...million infusion from the national party, but that proved to be one of those "sure, let's get together again, I'll call you" moments. The National Republican Campaign Committee has chipped in about $100,000 and some mailers. But Sekula-Gibbs has raised a respectable half-million dollars from individual Republicans, including $150,000 at a Dick Cheney Houston fundraiser in early October. DeLay has donated his campaign voter list, and Texas Republican stars like U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison have been on the ground campaigning for Sekula-Gibbs. As an added boost, President George W. Bush plans...