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Jason Lurie has a website. “Chez Jason,” to be exact. There is a pop-up box that boasts, “Jason kicks ass,” and a section entitled “Jason Lurie: Man, Myth, Legend.” In person, the legend is slightly disheveled but still kicking ass. Or at least talking about...
...student, Manny, who was forced to take a year off for academic dishonesty, says it was this exact sort of confusion that came into play in his case. When Manny was a sophomore he took a Science Core, and one week he cheated on a problem set—the sort of assignment that would only count as a check-plus or check-minus—by simply copying a few answers from a friend who sent him her problem set in an e-mail. Within a few days of turning it in, Manny found himself before the Ad Board...
...environment at Harvard has even been pointed to as a breeding ground for female-female competition of the exact type that Brandt emphasizes in her argument. When 19 girls founded the Seneca in 1999, they saw these competitive tendencies—and the problems they created—as one the key problems in the Harvard community. “One goal [of the Seneca] is that we want to create a support system for women and really get to know each other in non-competitive setting,” a hopeful Alexandra B. Seru...
...vice president of East Coast programming, kept poking Gest while Minnelli was singing at a dinner party in their apartment, demanding that Gest get some younger guests to perform. It cannot be underestimated how rude they found this. I began to understand when they made me walk to the exact place in the apartment where this took place and re-enacted it for me, with me playing the role of Gest, which meant getting poked...
...that the student population has read this article, which pinpoints this tragic woman to an exact location, we may all walk past Holyoke Gate “fully informed” and wonder how she could possibly undertake this journey across the Atlantic. Presumably, we are supposed to laugh at the idea of it, as at the idea of her working for Chase, owning her own company, searching for romantic involvement, and writing a resume—all fabulously good jokes considering the bedraggled, ranting woman outside the gates of fair Harvard. The joke is further enriched by the ominous...