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...came from an immigrant family and had no background in a lot of the subjects I was studying. At high school, they never even taught us the Periodic Table, and there I was, competing with fellows from prep schools who had already taken these things. My A??s in science were balanced by my C’s in everything else, but graduating with honors meant nothing to me then...
...those A??s couldn’t erase his ancestry. “Here I was, a college graduate from Harvard University, and not a single company or place would offer me a job,” says Fujimoto. “Not only that, but my draft board had the audacity to classify me as an ‘enemy alien.’ When I applied to graduate school at [University of] Illinois, they turned me down on the basis that there was an Army air base right next to the campus. I saved that letter...
Harvard unveiled a new star in freshman Alexandra Clarke, who was able to set school records in both the 1000 and 1650-yard freestyle events at the beginning of day three. She was also only two seconds shy of receiving an NCAA “A?? bid in the 1650 event, but walked away with a “B” cut instead...
...give that an “A?? for asinine. Ditto the other UC candidates, none of whom disagree with keeping ROTC away. Yes, the military discriminates against gay students. Yes, this is a remarkably idiotic—not to mention ineffective—policy. No, it should not continue. But severing every relation Harvard has with the military is a disproportionate response—one might call it an excessive use of force. That would be like those wackjob conservatives who dismiss Harvard because of its association with commies, jews, and pinko liberals. It?...
...first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared appearance of a dog’s ear—from the lap-held purse of the same esteemed professor, who herself is just now remarking how much the first tuning exertions of an orchestra—seeking A??recall the agitation of a fly rising midsummer to the occasion of a pane of clear glass, but who has also not failed to notice that the bright star of her Monday seminar, the young man from Edinburgh—Alasdair?—is just a knight?...