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...recruiting any Harvard professors for the new program—in addition to Appiah and West, Princeton publicly courted Harvard scholar Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 2002—Cliatt chuckled and politely replied that “we are excited about a wide range of opportunities.” At the potential threat of losing faculty to the unofficial rival, Higginbotham responded, “I am not at all fearful of losing faculty members...We don’t consider our department to have cornered the market on all the brilliant people...
...turns out, both movies and TV shows are being encoded in files that better suit TV screens. All of the TV shows on iTunes are now available in a higher-resolution format. Originally, episodes of The Office were around 110MB in size, and had pictures that were 320 pixels wide; the same episodes, sold at the same price, are now around 240MB, and are 640 pixels wide. (Note: while the files are 640x480 in resolution, widescreen movies and TV shows are letterboxed, so they actually have a height of something considerably less than 480 pixels...
...avoid the subject wholesale by focusing intently on the present. Point to the splatter of vomit plastered on Quincy’s ceiling or your senior tutor’s feet, and do the whole wide-eyed wonder thing. Tease tourists. Gossip...
...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...Harvard academics to choose from. “I can think of about 20 people who deserve it just from this neighborhood,” said Gawande. The MacArthur Fellowship program has gained much prestige since its inception in 1981. Past winners include Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and former Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould. Because the winners are chosen from nominations, not applications, the professors were taken by complete surprise. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank caller,” Eggan told...