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...shine, or maybe he has become a little dominant, popping up at inopportune moments. Either way he’s there. You can’t hide it—everyone at Harvard has a geeky side. For those in geeky denial, I’ll define the concept. The term “geek” is often thought of as simply synonymous with “nerd,” or “dork.” But my brand of geek is not an academic genius or a person lacking in social skills. Real geeks consume...
...backbreaking poverty remains all too evident, the country still has only 3,000 km of freeway, and finding enough water to drink is an annual battle for tens of millions. (Oh, and there are no real-life plans for an Indian lunar landing.) There's a handy Hindu concept to explain these paradoxes. Maya means wonder, as in Mayanagri (city of dreams), the Hindi nickname for Bombay. It also denotes a willful fantasy - of the kind, for example, that would have a U.S. President last week expressing his "joy" at seeing the new India while in Delhi, a city only...
Among the front-row crowd--an international group of buyers and press--there were whispers of the "Muslimification" of fashion. Were designers responding to conflicts in the Middle East by stitching some kind of political message into their silhouettes? Historically, many designers have explored the veiling concept. At Balenciaga, a cyclamen head scarf that appeared at the end of the show was a replica of a similar one Cristbal Balenciaga designed in the '60s. Politics has surfaced in the past too. Eight years ago, the Turkish designer Hussein Chalayan presented a collection modeled by women in chadors...
...circus than a gathering of the nations of the world to achieve a higher purpose. Today, instead of Coubertin’s exchange of ideas and culture, athletes backstab mercilessly in the hopes of creating sufficient controversy and getting enough media exposure to merit a lucrative endorsement deal. The concept of “team” is nearly dead, as American speed skaters have amply demonstrated this year. It’s nauseating, really. Sure, athletes are happy to pay lip-service to Olympic ideals, but in reality many only emerge from their cloistered, pampered existence in the Olympic...
...controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created the concept of the concentration. Lowell, in turn, came under fire for his racism and anti-Semitism. A search committee installed James B. Conant ’14 in 1933, who helped create the SATs and developed a more meritocratic university, according to Menand. After Conant, Nathan M. Pusey...