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former Harvard running back, promised that he was going to pull off an upset victory similar to his successful 1990 bid for attorney general, it was Cellucci, a Boston College alum, who squeaked out a two percent...
...Alum opinion, which has varied widely since the beginning of Harvard Radcliffe negotiations, ranged from that of Pricilla Redfield-Roe '42, who said she hopes her alma mater will retain the name "Radcliffe College" for symbolic purposes, to Moon, who suggested an international focus to Radcliffe's projects...
...very hard to keep this kind of movementgoing, but it's so obvious that there's still aneed." said one alum. "What you're saying aboutclass and section is exactly what we felt...
Students said hearing that alum experiencedsimilar struggles as undergraduates wasmeaningful...
...conquering the elusive troika of money, power and prestige, Rubin is living the dream of the hyper-ambitious. As the embodiment of what so many at Harvard seem to be striving to emulate, he's the poster boy of the Harvard undergrad. The drive to equal this uber-alum's conquest of the troika has become one of the defining characteristics of undergraduate--especially senior--life at Harvard. Curiously though, this drive is often self-defeating. For the more success we attain, the less-satisfied we feel. Call it the prestige paradox...