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...only did Weld, a classics concentrator, excel in academics, he also participated in a myriad of extracurricular and social campus activities...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...mate, if that's the word, mostly in one-night stands. When they air their lives out, it's with ski holidays and ecotourism, not yachting or casino crawling. With salaries for researchers that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford to dress with the flash of yesterday's gunslingers. Most don't. An atypical Merrill Lynch computer jock keeps a 360-hp speedboat in Westport, Connecticut. This appears to embarrass him, and he blusters, "That's not who I am, and if you don't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of the Data Miners | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...tunes range about half instrumentals, halfvocals. This is just the type of collection thatRhino has come to excel in producing, withpredictable Eddie Fisher tracks thrown in withVaughn Monroe's deep baritoned "Riders In the Sky(A Cowboy Legend)," (complete with Vaughn'smournful "Yippie-eye-ays") and Peggy Lee's fakeSpanish-accented "Manana (Is Soon Enough...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Of Tango, Bluegrass, and surf Music... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...points made by Nietzsche and Paglia are well-taken. Satire, wit and ad hominem attacks have been and always will be essential to healthy, honest and vital discourse. Just because the people who don't excel in these areas want us to have pity on them doesn't mean we must give up the treasured rhetorical devices which make campus debate not only intelligent, but also entertaining--and therefore worth reading...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Art of Making People Think | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...bottom line is that Harvard is about achievement, about excellence. This College only admits individuals who have demonstrated exceptional abilities to achieve and excel. Unlike Harvard's office of Admissions, Mr. Lat still labors under the antiquated notion that such abilities are purely quantifiable. Would he dare suggest that MIT is a superior institution because its SAT average is usually higher than Harvard's? I hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Denigrates Blacks, Latinos | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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