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Affiliates of Harvard who do not qualify as protectors concern themselves with their individual goals. students have little or no control over the rules and regulations, finances, services and policies enforced by the institution they choose to join. Although it provides name, status and diploma to the fortunate few, the institution remains wholly aloof from the daily life of Harvard's masses. At various times, most notably upon admission and departure, students are made to feel central to the operation. At most other times, the prevailing orthodoxy is that students must complete their single-minded pursuit of fulfillment--a paternalistic...
...exception in other years the organic society has prevailed. Students have accepted two philosophies that tend to stifle discontent at the grass-roots level. For one, those who pay tuition view themselves as consumers, not members of a community in which they have a legitimate interest. Purchase the Harvard diploma and leave the rest behind. The second philosophy, probably a more pervasive one, complements the goals of the protectors. This theory holds that the whimsical, temporary wants of students threaten the stability and excellence of a university devoted to much higher ideals. Students enroll in Harvard not to overhaul...
...badly shook the government of Charles de Gaulle. But unlike the 1968 rioters, who were engaged in an ideological battle against "bourgeois society," this year's protesters had a strong economic motive. With nearly 30% of those ages 18 to 25 unemployed, the French young increasingly view a college diploma as the surest passport, perhaps the only passport, to a good job and a secure future. Many felt that the Chirac proposals would undermine what is meant to be an egalitarian educational system by making it more difficult for some to enter college and thus eventually to win good-paying...
...nine percent of the students took six years, 5 percent needed seven years, and 10 percent spent up to 11 years before completing their pursuit of a college diploma...
...Tyson still has "his 20-year-old days" (a bachelor, he proclaims his accessibility to women), Rooney considers him "a mature fighter, a very elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down...