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...myth that men make their own destinies, instead advancing the thesis that “outliers”—the so-called “best and the brightest”—are the result of the context in which their success took place. Outliers can??t be understood as isolated prodigies because success is not an individual phenomenon; successful people, Gladwell argues, never rise from nothing. This is hardly an uncontroversial claim in a culture that prides itself on being a meritocracy. Tales of 21st century self-made men (and women...
...McKibben holds that while the role of individuals’ and institutions’ eco-minded actions are important, such as Harvard’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they should be de-emphasized in favor of organizing direct and symbolic action.“You can??t make the math work in any practical way by changing your light bulb. Symbolic action offers the practical hope for actually changing things on a large scale,” McKibben said. It is more effective, he added, to focus on “political action that seems...
There is a disease that’s running rampant in hip-hop and R&B, a disease that can??t be cured by crunk juice or codeine-infused Kool-Aid: it’s a psychological identity crisis characterized by the hackneyed struggle between ghetto hustler and superstar. A disorder once quarantined to gangster rap—see case studies such as T.I.’s “T.I. vs. T.I.P” and Cassidy’s “Split Personality”—it has infected...
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...would miss Pforzheimer’s “extraordinary sense of community.” “Every day I have a fascinating discussion with a student,” McCarthy said. “There isn’t a single day in which I can??t say that isn’t the case. And that’s something non-House masters don’t have the opportunity to appreciate.” —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...