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Mild-mannered Neil Leon Rudenstine--Princeton graduate, Rhodes scholar, poetry professor--got off to a rocky start with his big plans, literally collapsing in exhaustion, having to take a month off and go to the beach. But, after resolving to write fewer of his trademark handwritten thank-you notes, Rudenstine returned in time to see his labor pay extraordinary dividends...
...raised $2.6 billion from hundreds of thousands of donors. During the course of Rudenstines presidency, the endowment has more than tripled, to $15 billion. 2000 April: Rudenstine agrees to consider the creation of a faculty committee that would help advise him on financial decisions. I have committed myself to write down something on the way we are going, Rudenstine said. [I am] thinking about a University-wide committee to talk about various large issues that come up before the University as a whole...
When Onel de Guzman's thesis proposal, titled "E-mail Password Sender Trojan," was rejected by Manila's AMA Computer College in February, the thesis committee gave a distinctly nonscholarly reason. "This is illegal!" the school's dean fumed. De Guzman wanted to write a program to "steal and retrieve Internet accounts of the victim's computer," allowing people to use those stolen log-ins to access the Internet free. The response from a faculty member, scrawled in the margin of the page: "We do not produce burglars...
...global-affairs questions were handled by World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, who scored a coup by getting General Wesley Clark to write about the future of warfare. Washington correspondent Mark Thompson, with help from Ed Gabel and Missy Adams, describes what the soldier of 2025 will be wearing (and wait until you hear about rations). For those who think that peace in the Middle East will end the region's turmoil, Robin Wright has a more complicated story to tell. Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, offers a surprising answer to his question, "Will Socialism Make a Comeback...
Next up is a cameo in Charlie's Angels, starring and produced by Green's real-life girlfriend Drew Barrymore. Deals are also set for him to remake Roberto Benigni's Italian comedy The Monster and to co-write an original script. Off-camera, Green is less frantic, more witty, but still weird. He expresses regret that doctors wouldn't allow him to take his excised testicle home. "I really did want to keep it," he says. "They told me they needed to do further testing, but I'm sure it will soon be a hot-ticket item on eBay...