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...upshot, however, is that the fundamental status contest is the same in each place, and the game’s conventions are arbitrary. The options at Harvard for charting a future path, choosing a field of study, or even balancing extra-curricular activities with unstructured time present themselves within certain constraints—rules of the game—that would not always make sense to those viewing from an outside frame of reference. Take, for instance, the incredulity outside the “Harvard bubble” at attempts to explain that going into finance is viewed here...
...Meltzer wrote an article with Law School Professor Richard H. Fallon which held that civilians held in the United States or Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants have a right to contest detainment in a civilian court...
...contest the popular supposition that most young men are disenchanted predators. Many Harvard men do positively exercise their manly qualities for the good of this community, their relationships, and their pride...
...breeze prevented the Crimson from using its favorite tactics, turning the contest into de facto independent fleet racing, a set up for which Harvard was not nearly as prepared...
Erin E. Walczewski and Luke Walczewski, who are married tutors in Kirkland House, said they had not known about the Harvard-wide Top Chef contest when they entered the Kirkland competition...