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...more of an acute sense of frustration: just when I finally figured this place out, it’s time to move on. In perhaps a vain attempt to spare others this frustration, I have complied a list of 10 things I wish I learned sooner (to the extent that I ever really learned them). As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.” So, in this spirit of altruism, follow the random musings of a senior with too much time on her hands...
While Boston’s museums have succeeded to some extent in acquiring modern art that is already renowned, they have met the work of emerging artists with more reluctance...
...discussed Light’s appointment with the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—and incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok, who will take the reins of the University after Summers leaves the presidency June 30. Summers did not indicate the extent of Bok’s involvement in the decision-making process, but he did say that Light and Bok had also spoken before the announcement.“The judgment that we reached collectively was that, since I had been extensively engaged in a search process and had a large...
...also about the many Harvard (and Princeton, and Yale) students who, according to that same site, consider “The Great Gatsby” only second to the Harry Potter books, yet do not seem understand the book’s main idea. And to a lesser extent, it is about the United States, which buys some 300,000 copies of “Gatsby” each year and has filmed it three times, all while still idealizing Gatsby’s lifestyle...
...prior arrest for assault does not mean one of the accused is automatically capable of sexual assault. And it?s tough to tell whether McFayden?s e-mail was racially motivated, or just repulsively sadistic. But one thing?s certain: Women of color in this country - and, to an extent, women in general - still teeter on that fine line between being seen as exotic objects of desire and, well, objects...