Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coolness toward the Undergraduate Council candidates and other potential campus superstars, then, may stem more from confusion than pettiness. Rather than trying to sort out a campus-wide pecking order, we have chosen a bland but egalitarian alternative: A thousand flowers may bloom, but they shouldn't expect any special treatment because of it. The council elections, important though they may be, try to get us to deviate from this egalitarian solution. It is not surprising then that they should be met with an indifference often laced with hostility...
This year's scholars were chosen from 909 applicants from 310 institutions throughout the United States...
...good. And maybe I'd like to have really nice plates in my own home--no mismatched assortment, but a heavy bone-white 12-person set. We are taught here to become accustomed to a way of life. Cocktail parties, teas and formal dinners seem standard. Maybe I've chosen a certain social circle and I can't point fingers at Harvard when I've willingly involved myself in it, but the very availability of such a life is fairly amazing. My first-year photos are of boys in tuxedos, girls in full length dresses and everyone sipping wine...
...this Harvard's fault? Maybe it's just a function of the world I've chosen here. But Harvard pampers. I can ask for what I want at meals and I can go to countless black-tie events. And regardless of who I have chosen as my friends, I am around people for whom money is a given, people who depend on money in a way I would have never conceived. And I grow more and more dependent on money. I become what Harvard seems to want me to be. It is no longer appealing to just make...
When you look at the business people we've chosen, you can track how our economy has evolved in a hundred years. First it was driven mainly by industrial production, then by service industries and now by information and knowledge. You can also see how centuries are affected by technological advances. The 19th century produced the railroads, the telephone and electricity. The five most important ones of this century are the mass-produced automobile, the airplane, television, the computer and the Internet. (Be sure to see our gatefold of great products on page 139 and our time line on page...