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...entire social circle was set before I even knew I had one—not out of some class-conscious master plan by my parents or anybody else’s, but by the bounds of polite society. Virtually everybody obeyed the same set of rules, designed to minimize anxiety all round. I have spent whole nights in the company of some friend-of-a-friend without ever looking them directly in the eye—much better than embarrassing everybody with public displays of friendliness...
It’s rare to encounter such a clear breach in the Harvard bubble. Most of us seem to refer to the “bubble” as if it were some geographical feature of Harvard Square. But it is as much mental as physical. We make conscious choices every day to protect ourselves by ignoring: We skip over the horrors of another article about more carnage in Iraq, or gingerly step around destitute homeless people in Harvard square. This willful ignorance grows out of a Harvard culture that makes it too easy to lose a sense...
...confuse “The Winner” with “Family Guy” can be laid to rest. For starters, it’s not animated, though it doesn’t seem to matter to MacFarlane. “It wasn’t a conscious decision to go into live action. This was the first thing I wanted to jump on,” he says. “It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life.” Gone too is the hapless patriarch typified...
...Dimmick in an e—mail. That’s not to say that the class is free from the inevitable balls to the mirror-lined wall awkwardness: “If I feel drawn to look at a particular man, I might notice that and feel self-conscious about that urge,” Stewart J. Landers writes in an e—mail. The class, which Sparling says was conceived during a “gay naturist gathering” has had some straight members in the past but is admittedly gay-dominant...
...greatest chance that [the] secondary concentration has of making a negative impact really has to do with performance in the concentration rather than the secondary concentration itself.” BEING ONE OF THE “HOT PEOPLE”In a student body stocked with career-conscious individuals, it is not hard to imagine that some students will utilize the secondary field to buff up their resumes. Although the implementation of secondary fields is meant to benefit students, members of the Harvard faculty are wary of its traps and downfalls. “I was not enthusiastic about...