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...people they pay to write for them. But there's something compelling about a good celebrity memoir just because it's so achingly predictable: the humble beginnings of the plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within...
...Crimson also added another name to the record books during the Columbia game, as junior offensive standout Andre Akpan broke the Harvard records for both career points and assists in Saturday’s contest. Akpan surpassed the previous standard set by Chris Ohiri ’64, who lends his name to the Crimson’s home field. With more than a year remaining in his time on the team, Akpan is also sure to further raise the bar for future Harvard soccer prodigies...
...announce her UC presidency bid just as FM was going to press. Andrea is short, curly-haired, and surprisingly frank. The etiquette in the Harvard political scene is very much don’t ask, don’t tell, she said. The more serious you are about a career in politics, the more that holds true—except for her. Andrea wants to be governor of New Mexico, and she said she sees no point in hiding her ambition. “I throw everyone off their game because I’m open about...
...almost all” the people who make it there—or even make it close—have been planning their route to the Oval Office for much of their lives. Both Bill Clinton and John Kerry were aiming for the White House early in their careers, and all their friends knew it, Cannon said. “I’ve known John McCain all my life, and I’ve just learned that he was thinking about it early in his Naval Career,” he added. Then, of course, there?...
...Dean of Admissions said yesterday during a discussion at the Harvard Coop about her new book “The Best Law Schools Admissions Secrets: The Essential Guide from Harvard’s Former Admissions Deans.” “One of the great things about a career in law school admissions is that I’ve had a window on the part of the world that’s getting ready to become leaders,” Curll said, “people who have been extraordinary human beings whose lives I played just a minor...