Word: admittingly
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...other words, people have the typical reaction to my nose ring that they have to most affectations, which is to say that they pay them undue attention, which is pretty much the point of having them. I must admit, mine is a bit more obvious than usual since it is smack in the middle of my face, or to be more precise, it's slightly right of center (an odd fact considering that I consider myself quite a bit left of center; but I already have five holes in my left ear lobe--another affectation I'll get to later...
Aside from the obvious aesthetic advantages of wearing a diamond nose post, I will admit that it is also a statement: It's a refusal to compromise, it's my way of saying, "My way or the highway." Having this bit of jewel in my nose means I cannot get a job on Wall Street and it means I don't attract the kind of men who wouldn't be attracted to the kind of woman who wears a stud in her nose. I don't think I'm missing much...
...recent editorial on Asian-American admissions contained serious factual errors and betrayed a profound misunderstanding of the College's admission policy and its objectives. Our faculty, our undergraduate students, and our alumni/ae have worked too hard for us to allow such inaccuracies to hinder our effort to recruit and admit Asian American applicants...
...idealist, I have to admit. I think human nature is self- interested. But there is such a thing as enlightened self-interest. The trick is to engage self-interest at the point where it touches other people's self- interest. Why shouldn't it be done on the international level, particularly when we have invented a way of putting an end to the whole experiment, by nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. That is what the U.N. should be all about. I maintain that my idealism, which is based on some fairly rough experience, is a great deal more...
Harvard, that ol' bastion of intellectualism, says it does not engage in that sort of thing. Harvard does admit to giving preference in admissions to athletes--something people here never seem to question--not for the sake of big-time sports (or organized barbarism, as some would say), but for diversity and the Greco-Roman ideal...