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...with “tasteless stuff that goes on” today. And it is inappropriate for anyone to claim that I just have it in for Harvard. My criticism of Harvard is motivated by my research findings, namely that highly educated Americans capable of exerting influence against barbarism chose at critically important moments to help legitimate the Hitler regime...
ItwasJ.RobertOppenheimerhimselfwho chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...
...level of disapproval of Jane and John Harvard reached a peak, though, after the well-coordinated (and from what I hear, hilarious) disruption of the CIA recruitment meeting two weeks ago. Being offended because a group of idealistic students chose to mess with a government effort that they deemed profoundly amoral is ridiculous. Instead, we should marvel at how much power these students leveraged—whether or not we agree with their politics. (For the record, I agree.) They actually stood up and stopped a mechanism of the powerful system they hated, just by being funny. As one friend...
...women will send seniors Victoria Henderson and Eleanor Thompson in both the 400-meter hurdles and the mile relay, while freshman Dimma Kalu and junior Stevie DeGroff will join them in the latter event. Others qualified, Haggerty said, but due to conflicts and an interest in rest and recovery, chose not to attend...
...during high school, I found my mantra: organized religion was an oxymoron. How could a hierarchical institution be a vehicle for transcendence? I shocked my AP English class when I wrote a biting two-page satire in rhymed iambic pentameter about how hypocritical the high holidays were. Nonetheless, I chose to fast and attend services on Yom Kippur. The ritual made me think about the world’s hunger. It cleared my head. I was touched by the communal confession of sin (I couldn’t help comparisons to that other religion’s mode of confession...