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Hooray for Bill Gates, I guess. Hooray (long ago) for Marconi's gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...
...spoken admiringly of Shakespeare's business sense, and he has it too; he also possesses Olivier's keen ambition, the entrepreneurial magnetism that attracts the brightest lights of Britain and Hollywood to his projects. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable Hamlet--and Hamlet--from being a thrilling...
...self-declared best and brightest, I would suggest that we have a duty to master the baser instincts of our nature—including rising above the inevitable impulse to automatically declare ourselves better than some group of “outsiders.” Don’t castigate those with whom you are not familiar, for rather than sounding enlightened and intelligent, you come across as precisely the things you accuse others of being: stupid, unworthy, and, worst of all, really, really, annoying...
...stuff rather than just the afternoon.” For this perhaps I should thank my lucky stars, but the fact that it takes three years to learn what parents have been saying for decades speaks poorly about the rationality of Harvard’s best and brightest. At the very least, the growing swarm of economics concentrators should be able to stem the staying-up-late stalemate. One of the fundamental tenets of their “science” is that humans—eventually—can learn from their mistakes. I hope my children can learn...
...enormous disparities in opportunities across countries is the fundamental challenge facing the world today,” Hausmann said in a statement today. “Harvard has among the best professors on development and the brightest students. The challenge for CID is to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Doing this will require that we bring the problems of the world to Harvard and bring Harvard’s ideas to the world...