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HARVARD GETS TO CHEER for many famous alumni in the public eye. Paul E. Wylie '91, who won the silver medal in men's figure skating last week, is one of them. Presidents, authors, musicians, philosophers, doctors and lawyers abound. But students don't often get to cheer our alma mater to the gold--or close to the gold...
Frightening anecdotes abound. Kali Korn, 41, of Los Angeles came down with scleroderma last year, a decade after she had silicone implants inserted for cosmetic reasons. The skin has so constricted around her fingers that she is virtually unable to move them. Doctors removed the implants in March, and she now says, "I feel much better. I wish I had realized 10 years ago that how I looked was fine...
Admissions Officer David L. Evans thinks that, in troubled economic times, when cries of "reverse discrimination" abound, we should be aware that diversity can have some serious repercussions...
...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
Cautionary tales abound of lottery winners whose bad investments lead them to bankruptcy, but most of America's luckiest people seem to keep their feet on the ground. The fact that they are paid in 20 annual taxable installments helps. (Annual payments also mean a much lower outlay by the lotteries.) Most winners stay in the same neighborhood, keep old friends and continue to look at price tags...