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...Harvard tends to attract people that are really motivated and do things for themselves. There’s a tendency to become lonely through that experience,” former AACF executive Adrian M.T. Tam ’06 said...
...rather than continuing to fight the system, Olmert joined it. In 1977 he opened a private law firm, using his influence to attract wealthy clients. The law practice made him rich--"I don't hate the good life," Olmert says--but his ties to the business community landed him in the middle of numerous scandals, including a case stemming from the 1988 election campaign in which he was accused of conspiring with other Likud officials to skirt campaign-finance restrictions. Though he was acquitted in 1997, Olmert gained a reputation for cynicism. As Jerusalem mayor, he initiated improvements such...
Coaches and television sports analysts, who invaded 23.1 million households during last year’s tournament according to Nielsen, have a unique opportunity and obligation to flag this lingering problem and attract broad public interest. They must speak out because, in the month of March, the public is listening, eagerly lapping up the madness...
...HFAI is not simply limited to financial aid—it is also a recruitment program designed to attract more applicants from lower income brackets. Our recruitment efforts fall under several categories, including almuni involvement, community outreach, and recruitment by HFAI’s seven student coordinators who make thousands of phone calls and send e-mails to prospective students from search lists. But since only so much can be done over the phone or on the internet, during breaks we send 20 HFAI undergraduates on recruitment trips to their hometowns to visit local high schools and middle schools...
Harvard’s first priority still must be to target and attract underrepresented and lower-income students—people for whom HFAI is currently tailor-made. Fitzsimmons and the successors of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean Kirby cannot stop there, however. If Summers truly believes that “the larger the lake you fish in, the bigger fish you will catch,” then he should ensure that Harvard’s financial aid hook is baited with middle-income lures as well. The problem, as I alluded to before, is that these lures...