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...property, and even though they are not Harvard-affiliated on account of their obvious conflict with Title IX, the Development Office doesn’t want them to disappear. Somehow the list of Harvard’s most influential alumni overlaps with final club members to a remarkable degree. Aha! There’s something we forgot to consider when scratching our heads about these clubs’ appeal: they make kids rich, even if they weren’t to begin with, through the connections—and perhaps the culture—they offer their members...
THERE WAS A QUOTE IN THE NEW YORK OBSERVER RECENTLY FROM "A SENIOR-LEVEL STUDIO EXECUTIVE" WHO SAID ABOUT YOU, "I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE'S CONTRIBUTED ... HE'S AN ENORMOUSLY TALENTED GUY ... BUT HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT MAKING MONEY FOR ANYBODY." Aha, but that means that the business is only around to make money. That's the only reason that people are in this. I don't agree with that...
...aha" moment stretched over a little period of time, from the spring of 1960 through the rest of that year. A professor named Bill Farber, who was the head of the political-science department at the University of South Dakota, called me to dinner at his house when I was a sophomore. I had, to put it euphemistically, compiled an undistinguished record personally and academically. I was not getting good grades. I was spending a lot of time on the beer and coed circuit. Farber said, "I want you to drop out of school and get this out of your...
...they were cleverly lowering expectations, but in the days before Powell's performance, Administration officials were fairly uniform in admitting the presentation would contain only a few clearly incriminating charges. Most of the material would be circumstantial and deductive, the kind of evidence that doesn't quite yield the "Aha!" moment that greeted Adlai Stevenson's display of the famous Cuban-missile photos...
...Aha, I thought. Narnia isn’t much of a leap to Hogwarts...