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...then Harvard happened. During pre-frosh weekend, I took it all in: my as yet untarnished reverence for The University, the bounty of potential friends, the slew of academic and extracurricular options, I happened upon a South Asian Association barbecue, peopled with Indians (like me!) who were eager to welcome the class of ’05 into their fold. In an environment of unlimited choices, ethnic identity seemed to be yet another extracurricular activity I could choose to participate...
...think there’s a general sense that we’re eager to get the committee’s reports, which I gather are provisional,” she says. “We’re moving into the more exciting phase of curricular planning...
True, this push towards biotechnology is far from a uniquely Harvard trend—which partly stems from the availability of eager venture capitalists looking for the next biotechnological blockbuster. One professor joked to me that he used to consider OEB a “life science,” but a hot new scientific journal, Life Sciences, is focused on microbiology’s (marketable) applications to medical technology and boasts numerous investors on its subscriber list. But in a world which is increasingly neglecting the importance of evolutionary sciences, Harvard should be a role model, not a reflection...
...juror offered her view that when things went to hell at Tyco, the Ivy League--educated, Waspy board of directors closed ranks and served up, in her words, the "Polack and the Jew" on a platter for a D.A. eager to make an example of somebody--anybody--for the corporate greed of the late '90s. (Never mind that there was no testimony about Kozlowski's roots or that Swartz is even Jewish.) That was the first indication that the soon-to-be-infamous Juror No. 4, Ruth Jordan, wasn't going to make our job any easier. Jordan...
...recent episode of the hit TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump challenged a gaggle of fawning dealmaker wannabes to boost revenue at his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Eager to impress, Trump's pupils got right to work. But they might have just as quickly asked, Who the heck is Trump to judge? After all, his casino empire has been losing money for years...