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...January 1999, at the first meeting of the council's Student Affairs Committee, Gusmorino and Shumsky independently introduced the idea of selling textbooks on-line. They wanted to write a computer algorithm that could compare prices from a number of different on-line book vendors, factoring in shipping costs, taxes and speed of delivery to help students find the cheapest price...
...Campus women's groups have joined together this winter to write a Women's Guide to Harvard that will include information about women's resources--both academic and extra-curricular. It will be modeled in format after the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard, a book that is distributed to every first year...
Eskew worked on both of Gore's Senate campaigns, and in 1988, when Gore suffered the first political defeat of his life, he recruited Eskew to write his withdrawal speech--a graceful, humble, witty, healing final note to the brutal presidential campaign that Gore had run. With an eye to the future, Eskew made sure that Gore began making peace with the former rivals he would someday need. Gore lauded Gephardt for his "passion in the service of policy" and Jesse Jackson for teaching him that "we are a richer party and a better nation when we break down barriers...
...addicted," he confessed, "to being in touch with everything at all times." Cut off from his e-mail, he felt alone, adrift. "You can exist without it, sure," he said. "You're just sort of living in a different milieu." Worse, the journalist learned he wasn't able to write coherent sentences without his word processor. "The new style becomes a scribbly, scratchy mess covered with arrows," he wrote in his column...
...father of two children, 21 and 8, Curtis credits his wife Kaysandra, a registered nurse, for encouraging him to write full time. The financial sacrifice has paid off: "As soon as this award was announced, my wife went from house hunting to mansion hunting...