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There’s even a kind of respect for the fellows, down on their luck as they are. They’re almost anachronisms, like highwaymen, egoistic outlaws from a distant past. They see an opportunity for gain, and take it; they are Overmen, perpetually transcending the mundane. Maybe that’s the best reason for bailing the financial industry out: They’re exciting—like modern-day pirates, only better. James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...Griffin's previous supporters expressed only sadness. "I had been organizing to get April to have folks help her straighten things out as well as helping to keep her son with her family," supporter Laura Manriquez told TIME. "Things did not work out when she and her family became distant and decided to not follow through with me." Griffin's former attorney, Narcisso Aleman, told TIME he no longer represents Griffin and could add nothing about her condition over the past several months...
...university was assigned a Predictive Qualities Indicator score that determined its ranking. Harvard’s PQI score was 2365.42. Columbia, which ranked second, scored more than a hundred points lower. Stanford, which came in third, scored more than a hundred points less than Columbia. Yale ranked a distant eighth. “It’s kind of interesting how large the gap was between Harvard and the other schools,” Payack said. “The difference between Harvard and MIT was substantial.” MIT ranked 19th, with a score of less than nine...
...really want is a sandwich from a local restaurant back home or the face of a friend from high school, even if we didn’t particularly like that restaurant or person when we actually lived at home. It is this longing for things associated with our distant homes that, upon meeting other people from our towns or areas, prompts us to flush with pleasure and ask if they know this person, remember that park, grew up watching the same commercials.After a time, our lives at Harvard take on the same aura of familiarity as our homes. We begin...
...combine a keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around. I remember a day a few years ago at his home in Stonington, Conn., when, racing his Boston Whaler to a distant beach at a terrifying clip, he had my young daughters shrieking with excitement while simultaneously quizzing me on the possible business models for journalism online. He was a multitasker before the word (which he surely would have hated) was invented...