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...same thing: "I'll take my chances with the poisoned water, thank you." And what can you or I say? There are excellent illusions of power out there, and people really think they will get the power to change things. All they have to do is take their Harvard diploma and ask for it. And when they get told no, they still have their career, and their security, and the small reassurance that "things will get better as soon as the economy gets back on the upswing." Meanwhile back in the ghetto...
...sixties are dead. It's hard to speak of the community without sounding cliche. But my skin is still black. and, last I heard, the black community is still out there struggling. And though I haven't seen one, I don't think I can feed my Harvard diploma to any starving children...
Harvard graduates have disproportionately large contingents in the group that has finally gone to Oxford--last year nearly a sixth of the finalists came from Harvard. But even a Harvard diploma won't assure the scholarship--in fact, nothing will. So much depends on the competition you face, on the quality of your recommendations, and simply on the mood of your interviewers if you make it that far, that even the most impressive-looking resume may not help when you apply. But if you decide to try for a Rhodes when you graduate, well, good luck...
Wolff received a contract the following fall, inked it, and reported to the Tigers' Lakeland training camp in February of his senior year, still needing a semester to get his diploma...
...economic climate of the country is so bad at this time that no matter what we do, a large number of Ph.D.'s won't get jobs," McKinney says matter-of-factly. "But so far, at least, having a Ph.D. is still better than not having a high school diploma...