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...reality it is the perfect embodiment of the pernicious social elitism that once defined old Harvard and still pervades many corners of this campus. It is no coincidence that of the men in the Key, a highly disproportionate percentage, are affiliates of a final club. The women almost all conform to conventional standards of physical attractiveness. If one perused the Key's membership one might draw the conclusion that exceptional bone structure were a prerequisite for recounting the history of the John Harvard statue...
...order to help pin down these policy-averse politicians populating the worldwide muddle of the middle, TIME Daily has developed six non-mutually exclusive archetypes to which every middle-grounder worth his or her salt will strive to conform ?- and then matched them with some of the politicians practicing the centrist art today...
Despite my unwillingness to conform, I eventually did and became accustomed to the changes in my life. In my first semester, I joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and comped The Crimson. I had been heavily involved in a student-run organization in high school and wanted to be part of another one. I found that I really enjoyed being part of The Crimson and was very interested in business, so second semester, I became an operations/finance associate. A year later, I became finance manager and I still enjoy...
...faces unanticipated political dangers. "Capturing Ocalan and putting him on trial has had the unintended consequence of focusing international attention on Turkey's human rights record and its treatment of the Kurds," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "NATO's Kosovo campaign also increases pressure on Turkey to conform to the standards of an alliance that is taking military action in defense of human rights...
...superstardom mostly look Anglo, leaving the darker performers behind. "It's fascinating to me, and a little upsetting, that this is still the white face of the Caribbean," says Santiago. "I'm sure that there are equally talented and gifted artists out there whose facial features don't conform as much to the European ideal...