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...publicized. Often these claims are unfounded or exaggerated, but the important fact is that they—despite their abundance—have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer. Why then, do the best and the brightest continue to flock to Harvard? Some come for a specific scientist, others come for the squash team, but most, I wager, come for the fulfillment of definition “b”: a network and a job. In all of Harvard’s history, these two aspects...
...theGeorge W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with rsums bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that...
While Harvard lures the world’s brightest high school seniors this pre-frosh weekend with concerts, ice cream socials, and an ’80s dance, departments wooing the world’s top scholars have their own special tactics—flower bouquets, dinner invitations, and even the occasional valentine...
...blob of mixed colors that indicate shaking intensities, from low-intensity blue to medium-intensity yellow and high-intensity red. Then Aagaard calls up 1906. The difference is immediately apparent. This time red flows across the landscape like a river of lava, and among the places that glow the brightest is the area around Santa Rosa, just as the ShakeMap says it should...
...advantage, evening the score at three. It was the team’s conversion of both opportunities—both of Cohen’s goals came on man-up opportunities, and both were assisted by Harvard points leader Evan Calvert—that proved the brightest spots of the afternoon. “I try to bring a little bit of energy off the bench,” Steve said. “It’s like being the sixth man in basketball or something along those lines, but it wasn’t enough today...