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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Lisa W Federaro, Star Has Two Roles at Yale: Scholar and Focus of Attention.
New York Times, Mar 4, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/nyregion
/04franco.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=yale&st=cse
Note:
(a) Franco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco
(surname)
(b) inert (adj; Latin inert-, iners unskilled, idle, from in- + art-, ars
skill):
"very slow to move or act : SLUGGISH"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c) Walt Whitman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
(1819-1892; his poetry collection Leaves of Grass)
(d) polymath (n; Greek polymathēs very learned, from poly- + manthanein to
learn):
"a person of encyclopedic learning"
(e) Brooklyn College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_College
(part of City University of New York; established in 1930)
(f) Columbia College Hollywood (CCH)
http://www.columbiacollege.edu/
Established in 1953 and located at Tarzana, a neighborhood of City of Los
Angeles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzana,_Los_Angeles
, CCH has nothing to do with Columbia University.
(g) Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York (MTA)
operates two commuter rails to suburbs: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and
Metro-North Railroad (more commonly, Metro-North).
* Metro-North Railroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-North_Railroad
("Metro–North runs service between New York City to its northern suburbs in
New York and Connecticut")
* New Haven Line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Line
("Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line runs from New Haven, Connecticut
southwest to Woodlawn," Bronx) |
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