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...Harvard is a bunch of communists and a bunch of atheists—a bunch of rich snobs. You would flunk out, and you would lose your soul,” he remembers his teachers telling...
...Going back to the ’60s, which is when [race-based] affirmative action really got going, the white low-income and working-class families ceased to be sympathetic in the eyes of many in the academic community. There was this idea, well, they’re a bunch of Archie Bunkers. And I think that’s a real tragedy...
...winds. His bravery is seasoned by intelligence; his initiative is tempered by loyalty to the Crown and its naval legend Lord Nelson. Aubrey commands his frigate, the Surprise, with strength, not bravado, and an ease and rigor that win the respect of his men. He also has what any bunch of superstitious sailors needs in a boss: a nose for good fortune. They call him Lucky Jack. His nickname is a prayer to the fickle Fates that rule the sea, his presence a guarantee that the crew's lives are in the best hands...
...becomes a rock critic later in the novel, he notes the ignorance of his childhood self: “Of course, the 35-year-old rock critic knew what the 13-year-old scrap of prey on the sidewalk outside Intermediate School 293 never did: Wild Cherry were a bunch of white guys...
When users typed in the website’s URL, two pictures randomly drawn from online Harvard face-books would pop up, and the user would be able to pick which one was hotter. Zuckerberg sent the link to a bunch of his friends for feedback, but somewhere along the line it got forwarded to the IOP mailing list. “From there it was just gone,” says Zuckerberg. When he returned from a meeting a few hours later, traffic on the site had more than quadrupled, and his computer was running so slowly that...