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...celebrated, worshipped, whacked over the heads of the student body. We hear it again and again: Harvard is so diverse! Everybody here is so different! Different races, different religions, different activities, different home states, different home countries, even different sexual orientations! You might befriend a Black lesbian poet from Denmark! Or a Japanese-American tennis player from Iowa! Think what you might learn from such diverse people...
...here's another thing I've learned from diversity at Harvard: Different people aren't necessarily that different after all. Ms. Denmark and Mr. Iowa can probably find a lot of common ground. They're not aliens, after all. They're people...
Prince Frederick of Denmark '96 may be Harvard's newest and most royal matriculating student next year, but to the Cambridge City Council he's an abuser of the city's rent control system...
...fuzzy liberals say, It's for the poor.' Yeah right. The Prince of Denmark is living in rent control housing." May said...
...really? Try telling that to Denmark, whose anthem graphically commemorates the exploits of King Christian: "His sword was hammering so fast/ Through Gothic helm and brain it passed." Or the Chinese, whose national ditty is a paean to the prospect of "using our flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall." Guatemalans are admonished never to permit "tyrants to spit in thy face." And who could forget the immortal words in the second verse of the Bulgarian national song: "Countless warriors bravely die/ For the people's sacred cause." Such a roster would be incomplete without the heady draught...