January 16, 2004

Losing the Drive

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

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When Ray Yau was a teaching assistant, he cared about his students. But in a way, those same students were the reason he quit.

Mr. Yau entered the Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1989, after graduating from Williams College. He was given a

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