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...more than in any other epoch, individuals determine their own futures. This very fact of near-equal, overabundant opportunity is paralyzing. This effect is heightened at Harvard, which (excepting such anomalies as finals clubs) approaches the ideal of a meritocracy. What will I do? What should I do? What can I do? We have a pathological need for reassurance that is caused by an endless array of opportunities...
...epoch-making period of new world orders and democracies," she said. "We will be held accountable by history, and none can say they stood by passive. Rarely have we had such a window of opportunity. I urge all to seize it and make the new world order one of equality and peace...
...this material is not widely known, but it is really worth reading," O Cathasaigh says. "It comes from an epoch when the paganism and Christianity came together, and that produced a tremendous creative impetus...
...EASIEST MEANING OF THE TRIAL IS THAT WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN age of high trash, an Elizabethan epoch of lowest-common-denominator, everything-is-entertainment daytime drama that in Judge Ito's courtroom composed, day by day, its masterpiece--its soap, Santa Monica Othello...
...house system, whatever one sees its role as today, was originally designed as a form of social experimentation for a College that, like other universities of its epoch, remained segregated and hostile to African-Americans, Hispanics, and indeed, nearly all ethnic minorities. The house system, by mixing together students of different racial, social, and economic strata, paved the way for increased Black enrollment in the 1960s, and the more integrated campus of 1994. "The Houses," said the 1928 Report of the President, were "a social device for a moral purpose." And that "moral purpose" was likewise clear: "young...