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The Almighty Alum: Frits Van Paasschenn '83

The Almighty Alum: Frits Van Paasschenn '83

“The Almighty Alum” is a series of interviews with alumni who have meandered far beyond their college majors. Last Thursday, Frits Van Paasschen ’83 gave a presentation about his role as C.E.O. of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc, a global company with approximately 1,000 owned and

Five College Events

Sept. 29: “Analysis of Partially-Observed Social Network Data,” UMass, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Krista Gile, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMass Amherst will give a talk detailing three case studies involving social networing. The cases will be used to

The Duke's Notebook: Denk's Homage to Homes

“Is there a market for something like that?” asked an audience member of Carnegie Hall soloist Jeremy Denk, after having heard him play several piano études of the Hungarian-American composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) at a Seattle Chamber Music Festival concert this summer. Whether or not there is a

Amherst Bytes: The End of the Blackberry Era

Amherst Bytes: The End of the Blackberry Era

RIM is stuck. The Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry products released its second fiscal quarter results last Thursday and the numbers fell below even the most pessimistic estimates: gross margin sank from 44 to 38.7 percent, the firm had shipped 10.6 million phones instead of the 11 or 12

Drive Takes the Scenic Route and Outraces the Competition

Drive Takes the Scenic Route and Outraces the Competition

The day has finally come. One of cinema’s most esoteric, obtuse-sounding pairings has finally been realized. “Drive,” the new film from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, deftly blends two dissimilar cinematic worlds: those of the art and action film. In its sensibilities, it’s at one with any

Gates-way to Neva-land: Rarities in Rural Russia

Our first excursion into the countryside was a day trip to Vyborg, a medieval town a stone’s throw away from the Finnish border. The city’s strategic location on the Karelian Isthmus (oh, look at a map) has made it a point of contention between nations in the past,

The Mead Honors Hitchcock: the Versatile Orra White

Hitchcock combined her aesthetic talent with a love and knowledge of botany and created astonishingly detailed, accurate and beautiful renderings of hundreds of species of grasses, shrubs, flowers and fungi. She also depicted subjects from other branches of natural science including geology and paleontology (which her husband taught at the