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...Menino has really almost become an institution in Boston.” Yoon, who entered the Harvard Kennedy School after graduating from Princeton “wanting to change the world overnight,” finished his schooling in 1995 with what he called a “pretty cynical?? attitude about government. “I thought that all real meaningful change happened at the grassroots level, not at a city level—but that’s really just half of the equation,” he said. The former Pennsylvania resident got his first...
...have criticized our generation for. It’s not that we don’t care—I don’t think I would characterize it as apathy. It’s just a more pragmatic—and perhaps some people would say more cynical??outlook on how you achieve that...
...transporting quality, and not just because it’s a page-turner. J.K. Rowling has given our world the gift of another world, a completely fantastic place with enough parallels to our world that it makes us think. Many contemporary books are intensely personal, intensely subjective and intensely cynical??not the kind of books one can read on a smelly bus ride home from Yale. But Harry Potter hit the spot; it was absorbing, satisfying and wholly escapist. And the mobs outside stores that June night are proof that my experience with the book is a common...
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