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...mainly on our own skills. We are the ones who scored 1600 on our SATs or mastered the oboe underwater. We ascribe our progress towards the United States Congress or the presidency of Citigroup as a reflection of our merit; we view our achievements as a statement that we belong among our forefathers, such as John F. Kennedy ’40, John Updike ’54, or Senator Al Gore ’69. But it is exactly that tradition of success that should limit our hubristic interpretation of our accomplishments. Our alumni have made a lasting impression...
...February the FBI contacted Anderson's family to request that agents be allowed to search his files for any classified documents. The bureau says any such papers in the 187 boxes of old material belong to the Federal Government and not to Anderson's heirs, who currently have them, or to George Washington University (G.W.U.), where they're headed to be cataloged and stored. Kevin Anderson, one of the reporter's nine children, says the family was willing to cooperate with the FBI until agents made clear that they wanted to review every document and pull any they believed were...
...cannot begin via instant messenger). Our summer Facebooking madness was born of our pre-college anxiety. We faced the departure from everything that was familiar and the plunge into the unknowns of Harvard. The urge to collect friends was an effect of the desire for community, so as to belong, and not face Harvard alone. Prefrosh, don’t make the mistake I made. There’ll be plenty of time for face-to-face contact during Freshman Week—a period in which you will meet hundreds of amazing people—and too much summer...
...been said here in the interests of defending my son that is more nuanced than you might have heard. My children have seen hard, hard things. A violent father, racism, rejection, their identity questioned - French-born children of this nation made to feel like they don't belong. Djamila, my oldest daughter, had her head cut open as a child when her father threw a glass at her. Later, she was thrown out of a teenage party she'd been invited to by a father who said Arabs weren't allowed in the house. Three days later, she slit...
...choosing Paris as the setting is puzzling; the song is not classy, romantic, or French in any sense. The words “buck wild” just don’t mix well with the Eiffel Tower. Although Pharrell Williams produced the song, he doesn’t belong in the video. Williams, whose influence on the track itself is undetectable to most listeners, plays Mariah’s love interest, while Snoop, who actually raps in the song, sits at his card table and doesn’t interact at all with the other two stars. The fashion...