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Leno named winner of Harvard's Hasty Pudding award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts native Jay Leno is Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe. It says "The Tonight Show" host was selected because he has...Tags: Johnny Carson, Entertainment, Julianne Moore, The Tonight Show (tv program), Jay Leno
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Court hears challenge to $65M Facebook settlement
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg want to throw out a $65 million settlement of their lawsuit that alleged the social network was their idea. Lawyers for twins Tyler and Cameron...Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Judges, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Facebook
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S.B. mayor candidates to debate Thursday
SOUTH BEND — Voters will have an opportunity Thursday to size up the three candidates running to be South Bend’s next mayor. Democrat Pete Buttigieg, Republican Wayne Curry and Libertarian Patrick Farrell will debate from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at...Tags: Indiana University South Bend, Politics, Libertarian Party, Elections, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Singer Shakira accepts Harvard honor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning singer and philanthropist Shakira has been honored by Harvard University. The Harvard Foundation, the university's center for intercultural arts and science initiatives, gave Shakira its 2011 Artist...Tags: Jackie Chan, Human Interest, Education, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities
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Susan Hahn Susan Hahn was editor of TriQuarterly for 14 years. She is author of a recent novel, “The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter”; nine books of poetry, including “Self/Pity” and “The Scarlet Ibis”; and...Tags: Fine Arts, Periodicals, Chicago Police Department, News Media, Crime, Law and Justice
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COLUMN-Some cracks in the technocrat cult-Chrystia Freeland
Reuters(Chrystia Freeland is a Reuters columnist. Any opinions expressed are her own.) By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In...Tags: Antitrust Issues, Periodicals, Career and Workplace, Restraint of Trade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Column: Some cracks in the technocrat cult
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too. From Washington to Frankfurt to Rome, technocrats have stepped in where...Tags: Antitrust Issues, Periodicals, Career and Workplace, Restraint of Trade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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UCLA students dig into the physics of food
The three undergrads looked warily at the pulverized apples in their bowl. The would-be pastry chefs had planned to drop dollops of the mixture into a chemical bath, creating fruity spheres with a filmy skin and an oozing interior. Their early...
Tags: Lettuce, Apples, Pies and Tarts, Michael Voltaggio, Science
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Harold Shapero, neo-classical composer at Brandeis, dies at 93
Harold Shapero, the American composer and pianist who was associated with the neo-classical style of music and who was a longtime professor at Brandeis University, died Friday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93 and lived in Massachusetts....Tags: Entertainment, Music, Pneumonia, Arts and Culture, Culture
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U. of C. has the best writers, according to Grammarly survey
RedEyeIf the top 10 colleges in the nation had a spelling (and grammar) bee, which one would win? The University of Chicago, of course, if one survey is to be believed. The university was ranked No. 1 in a study by Grammarly, a grammar website, to find out...Tags: Duke University, Stanford University, Education, Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago
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More teens flocking to Twitter as enthusiasm for Facebook wanes
SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter is getting the youth vote. Nearly a quarter of teens now use Twitter to catch up with friends and keep track of celebrities, a big jump in usage as teens flock to different social media sites and spend less time on Facebook to...
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Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors
A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as it paints a remarkably detailed picture of early life...Tags: Bat (animal), Education, Ethiopia, The Pennsylvania State University, Elephant (animal)
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