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President Summers, in conjunction with the president of Amherst and a few others, took major steps to rectify this deeply troubling situation. Since 2004, students from poor and working-class families pay little or nothing to attend Harvard; Harvard admissions officers also visit more high schools in poor communities; Harvard began a small summer program for promising low-income students; and students and graduates engage in broader and more systematic outreach. The percentage of low-income students at Harvard is inching up, without any sacrifice in quality of those admitted, and other wealthy colleges and universities are slowly following...
...Larry doubts that great talent can emerge from the kitschy tourist zone on Prince Edward Island where his parents run a Highwayman Motor Hotel, and he leaves the island to attend university. He takes heart in another poet's observation about those tough writing days when the poem grins back while "I chop it like a mean boy." And there are plenty of days when Larry can see a poem in his typewriter grinning back at him, displaying what he imagines as a mixture of embarrassment, pity and superiority: "I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least...
...ironist. The contrast is like that between mules and donkeys. The former are much like “You Oughta Know”-era Alanis Morrisette, in that they are more properly defined as social satirists than ironists proper. Their most raucous displays of irony are when they attend “The Wedding Date” high, just so that they can snicker loudly at Debra Messing or talk about boxed wine with a suppressed mirth so powerful that scientists have yet to fully understand its magnitude. Online discussion forums about “The Royal Tenenbaums?...
...think it would be a major make or break.”Most commonly in interviews, high school seniors said that regardless of the tumult that has surrounded Summers, a Harvard education is still a Harvard education. “Academics, which is the primary reason I would attend Harvard, are not affected by Larry Summers,” said one applicant, Jeff N. Fox, a senior at Randolph High School in New Jersey.“The professors are still the professors, the classes still the classes,” he added.An already-admitted member of the Class...
...team” is nearly dead, as American speed skaters have amply demonstrated this year. It’s nauseating, really. Sure, athletes are happy to pay lip-service to Olympic ideals, but in reality many only emerge from their cloistered, pampered existence in the Olympic village to attend hedonistic parties in the hopes of scoring off the field of competition, as well as on it. Have we finally given up the pretence of hoping that through the Olympics, some greater understanding can be won through cooperation in a joint endeavor, without the prejudice of vested political interests...