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...lists don't really matter, because the yearbook sections that are dedicated to organizations, sports, publications, etc. provide the records and memories of what seniors did as undergraduates...
Stockman's career pattern was simple: find a "rabbi" (mentor in B-school lingo), become his slave until a better mentor comes along, become his slave, etc. The concept of a personal life, or fun, does not seem to part of Stockman's mental vocabulary; only the ceaseless immersion in whichever intellectual orthodoxies seemed most prudent at the time...
...same goes for exam proctors and other special needs for disabled students during exams: scribes, special lighting etc. The scheduling office of the College Registrar has provided these services free of charge during the academic year for years and years. I think that office does a remarkable job not only helping with exams but in moving classes to accommodate the needs of the disabled students. It is too bad that their good work is not only not recognized, but even denied...
...Harvard to invest in a nation whose regime is based upon so fundamentally wrong a premise as that of South Africa. That may very well be so. Yet, when asked why they do not also favor and agitate for divestment from other despicable regimes--the Soviet Union, Chile, etc.--the typical response is that divestment from South Africa is more attainable and holds out greater prospect for change than divestment from other regimes...
...Immediately after the TMI disaster, a task force of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) developed a 600-page "TMI Action Plan," which outlined the major weaknesses in nuclear power plants in the U.S.--unreliable equipment, faculty backup cooling systems, insufficient operator training, poorly designed control rooms, inadequate data displays, etc. And to the NRC's credit, much progress has been made--in operator training, control rooms, pipe repairs...