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...unclear how wide a cross section of society Friedman used to draw his conclusions, but it's possible they may have been a bit skewed. His previous three books were explorations of the psychology of a small but prominent group of people with powerful matriarchs and lots and lots of nannies: the British royal family...
McAuley’s proposal would reify class divisions and obliterate any chance of cross-class interaction. Dismissing the entire issue with a misreading of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a relegation of the “rich” to impenetrable unknowability, is recipe for disaster. Difference exists, but in situations in which its danger can be minimized without any costs—like adhering to social norms of modesty—there is no excuse to perpetuate it. Not even out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness...
Late last month, Faust met with a group of approximately 20 Business School students to discuss their concerns, which ranged from improving inter-school coordination—specifically difficulties in cross-registering for courses at the University’s other graduate schools—to expanding international academic opportunities, according to M. Scott Daubin, Harvard Business School Student Association co-president...
...detail: he is fond of lists, and he does not cut corners. It is easy to see how a younger writer, more enamored of punch and cleverness, might sigh at a passage like the following from “Under the Cloth;” “They cross the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing to move the essay along, and it might be argued that such attention to detail crosses the line into self...
Harvard has its crossover athletes. There’s Melanie Baskind, who plays both soccer and lacrosse; Cara Sprague, who competes in cross-country and skiing; and Nina Kucharczyk, a field hockey and lacrosse player. But who knew that lurking within the ranks of the Crimson’s distinguished track and field team is a world-ranking jump roper...