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...have heard too often my peers lamenting that athletes do not contribute to this community because of their supposed lack of exceptional Harvard academic standards. This type of bigotry might appear to have an attenuated connection to the explicit, religious-based exclusion of Jews, but the overall goal of discrimination certainly resonates from these two examples. It is now all but dogma, and rightfully so, that discrimination is elitist and goes against the accepting values on which Harvard relies—values formulated in the cultural upheaval of the 1960s...
...forever a “Guest”: a creature of thresholds, of spare bedrooms just slightly under-furnished, of borrowed clothes and borrowed friends, always made much of but never quite belonging. Like the subject of a Renaissance portrait whose eyes or hands are deliberately enlarged to appear more lifelike, Nick has the uncanny air of being both more and less human than the rest of us. The novel’s three-part division, following the narrator in 1983, 1986, and 1987, shows his consciousness at distinct stages of development. Nick becomes smoother, more jaded, and less likeable...
...unlimited photo storage. There’s no reason to go too fast and not be able to deliver on the promises we make.” In addition to creating online photo albums, facebook.com users can identify, or “tag,” the people who appear in their pictures. This new feature projects a white box around a person when the cursor is moved over that person’s name in the photo caption. Facebook.com is the 10th most trafficked site on the internet, with over 8.5 million unique visitors in September alone, according...
...done is confirm what everyone essentially already knew. And honestly, just what is the big deal anyway? Particularly with the female final clubs—whose focuses seem to be primarily social—it’s hard to imagine how the selection process could appear anything but arbitrary. It simply mirrors the way most individuals choose their friends: who seems sweet or nice, who rubs us the right or wrong way, basically whoever we “click” with. Unless other people have some sort of “meritocracy” system I don?...
...Democrats are in the last few weeks of honing their messages and themes for next year's elections, which they will roll out next month. Top Democratic leaders will meet this week with former Clinton White House spokesman Mike McCurry and Jim Gerstein, a Democratic strategist. They'll also appear with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to talk about Democratic strategies for dealing with terrorism...