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...about priorities. "Life is the blink of an eye," she says. "When you realize how short it ultimately is and how really insignificant perfection is, that doesn't mean you don't want to do things well, but you want to do them faster so you can take a bath, drink a glass of wine or read a book...
...summer prior to freshman year, students anxious to stand out among their illustrious peers zero in on a way to differentiate themselves: shopping. From Bed, Bath and Beyond to thrift shops, Crate and Barrel to Urban Outfitters, pre-frosh scour through dozens of packages of extra-long twin sheets...
...rejoin a scholarly community--reasonably priced health-care insurance was an added incentive. The Kaplans put down a $400,000 entrance fee (90% of which will be refunded when they leave) and pay a $4,000 monthly residence fee for an 1,100-sq.-ft., two-bedroom, two-bath apartment. The deal requires them to take 450 hours of college work a year. "We didn't want to sit around watching TV and playing bingo the way some people in rest homes do," Kaplan says...
...third day of a trip that was supposed to last two days, the Somalis feel the vehicle slowing down, and then see smoke pouring from under the hood. The Sudanese smugglers stop and splash water onto the engine and the truck coughs back to life. The frightening ritual bath is repeated over the next few days. But when the truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means...
McLean-Foreman is one of the stars of Harvard’s cross-country and indoor track teams, and a budding sporting-goods entrepreneur. Originally from Bath, England, he took up competitive running at the age of 15, after finishing his first 800 meter race—during his high school’s intramural sports day—in an incredibly fast time of 1:55. He opted to matriculate to Harvard over Oxbridge because British universities do not allow their students the same opportunity to focus on sports. Despite taking last year off and practicing without a coach...