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...background is what one would expect from someone of his birth. Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., he graduated from the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. He rows on the lightweight crew team and is concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. With his decidedly East Coast preppy style, Rogers certainly looks like Joe Harvard. Still, his manner lacks any entitled air about his sterling lineage...
...Scott has enjoyed the company of his classmates over the past year and a half. “Not having to deal with stupid people is really nice,” he says. He admits that his Western upbringing and staunch Republican politics set him apart from the East Coast prep set. “We just don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. I think some people find me abrasive...
Brown visited the Harvard campus during a family vacation at the tender age of eight. A decade later, she returned during a summer college tour on the east coast. Here to see Tufts, MIT and Amherst, she visited Harvard on a whim and fell in love. “It’s a good thing I stopped by,” she says...
...answer to why I was in that particular town, in that particular biology class, was simple. My father and mother, East Coast expats, came to Illinois for professional reasons. They did the best they could to infuse their only child with the liberal Jewish New York/Boston outlook amidst this strange breed known as Midwesterners: People who say pop instead of soda; melk instead of milk; and who still wonder why the hell those things that look so much like donuts taste so funny (and who persist in calling them bag-els instead of bay-gels...
...time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended on them for their livelihoods. He quaintly called his philosophy the ?toto picture.? In these ecologically minded times that thought may seem prosaic, but it was a message few considered in Doc?s day, no more dramatically demonstrated than by the sudden collapse of Monterey?s sardine...