When a reference to a scholarly thesis called "The Use of Macaronic Latin in the Mystery Play of the Seven Sleepers" helps him crack a gunrunning enterprise that goes back to the black market days of the Allied occupation, he runs out on the beach and turns cartwheels.
With a known deficiency in tenure-track positions, and a distinctive tradition of requiring academics to complete a second thesis (called Habilitation) to even qualify for tenured employment, "Germany has tried to introduce new paths" toward landing these treasured jobs, says Fisher.
Google, in fact, grew out of an earlier program developed for what was meant to be a final postgraduate thesis called BackRub that listed pages on the web according to the number of times they had been visited.
In 1931, James Ansara wrote a Harvard doctoral thesis called "The Immigration and Settlement of the Syrians," in which he suggested that any American town with a population of more than five thousand was likely to have Syrian residents.
I wrote a 250-page unofficial thesis called "I We" and set out to find a way to put these ideas into action by starting Rising Tide Capital.
The project began as a part of his undergraduate thesis, called "Looking?," at Parsons School of Design.
His thesis, called The Returned Soldier, "was a detailed description of the public policy measures that were necessary, not only to provide a supportive milieu to help veterans get over the effects of the war, but also to move on with national reconstruction".
Kramer's widow, Karen Kramer, who has spent three months collecting material to refute this thesis, called the film outrageous.
