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...????Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu...
When you appeared for freshman registration in 2006, five years to the day after 9/11, President Bush was declaring us â????saferâ???? ifÂ?? â????not yet safeâ????; the Dow was climbing toward its all-time high; and the world was rumbling along, or so it seemed, toward eternal prosperity. It was a world in which growing proportions of Harvard seniors were set to join Wall Street or consulting firms, a world of relatively secure jobs and high-paying careers, a world that was your oyster...
...year of Obama. Who could have anticipated that? It was the year of entropy, with catastrophic floods and fires, an imminent flu pandemic, and the biggest meltdown of world financial systems since the Great Depression. Jobs you had counted on evaporated. Opportunities vanished. Phrases like â????bailoutâ???? and â????too big to failâ???? were suddenly being applied to companies you had hoped would someday recruit you. And the University was not immune. We didnâ????t have to melt down the roof of Harvard Hall into bullets...
...economy has steadied a bit, and the word â????recoveryâ???? is in the air, even if we are not confident about its strength and pace. Yet this heavy dose of disorientation is an inescapable part of these extraordinary recent years. What have we learned that can serve us in times of calm or crisis...
...first is about humility. In case we didnâ????t know it before, we have been forcefully reminded that we cannot control, or even predict, the future or what it will require from...