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...Putnam high-scorer, attributes Putnam participation to students’ desires to relive high school contest math memories. “I call it nostalgia of high school,” says Jorza, a two-time member of the Romanian team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), over a fly-by meal in Loker. “Most people who went to the IMO are not very serious about [the Putnam]. When you’re doing a competition, it’s the atmosphere of people trying to solve problems in a fixed amount of time, and talking about...
...Math competitions] are fun. They're fun to take," said Putnam Fellow Michael L. Develin '00. "There are all these pathetic people who took math exams in high school [such as the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) and want to relive those glory days...
...Putnam is the only national mathematicscompetition for undergraduates, Taubes said,whereas high school students can take any of alitany of exams, the most prestigious of which isthe IMO...
...life, he found his identity depended upon his level of violence . . . His search was for domination, his basic urge was to destroy; sexual conquest for the sake of humiliating a woman was the first duty of a man to himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds her nose to conduct a secret affair with Maximo...
Orders with Kick. To reach Aba, federal forces had to cross the swift cur rents of the Imo River, which the Bi-afrans had established as the major defense line protecting Aba by the simple expedient of blowing up the main bridges. They had left just one bridge intact-at Awaza-and it was heavily mined. When federal marine comman dos stepped onto the bridge, it, too, exploded and vanished. The blast, however, failed to stop federal soldiers from running across the catwalk on top of a natural-gas pipeline that spanned the river parallel to the bridge...