Posts Tagged ‘Education’

Young Fallen Cow

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Stephanie Grace: Young Fallen Cow

From Gawker article, Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War:

Stephanie Grace knows she shot herself in the foot . . .
. . . Which was the bigger mistake: thinking this audience wouldn’t take offense, or thinking they wouldn’t be cutthroat enough to take her down? Someone forwarded the email to Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, and the email made its way to Black Law Students Associations’ email lists nationwide. Then legal blog Above the Law printed the email with her name redacted. As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation . . .
. . . Stephanie graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in—wait for it—sociology. She’s on the Harvard Law Review and, after graduation, she’ll head to California for a plum federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the titillating defender of free speech who had to recuse himself from an obscenity case when his cache of cow porn pictures came to light.

So happy trails, Stephanie Grace, and when you have a chance, could you please answer: What is the innate intelligence of a half-black, half-white female, naked on all fours mooing like a cow? Judge Kozinski wants to know

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Understanding the Credit Crisis

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

From Khan Academy. The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere, with 1200+ videos covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance.

Salman Khan (Sal) founded the Khan Academy with the goal of using technology to educate the world. Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ed


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