Word: fates
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...today's youth are supposed to be politically apathetic, more engaged in Facebook than the fate of the world, no one told Jessy Tolkan. The 26-year-old activist spent Nov. 2 to 5 in Washington at the Power Shift summit, where over 6,000 college students from every state in the country gathered to agitate for federal action on climate change. For Tolkan, the executive director for the Energy Action Coalition, an umbrella group of youth-oriented environmental groups that helped organize the conference, Power Shift was "by far the most incredible thing that I have ever experienced...
...Other seniors who have committed to service work after college don’t necessarily agree that finance or pre-professional education is a reliable road to service—or that the fate of the world is Harvard’s to determine. “I’m skeptical of the Harvard idea that because of our ‘excellence’ we are destined to save the world in ways that less privileged people aren’t,” says Adaner Usmani ’08, PBHA devotee and member...
...Earth, made of million-degree diamond and oxygen, smash together in an explosion that outshines their entire galaxy. The shrapnel from explosions like that one are thought to have made everything we know on Earth—including us—and could provide clues to the ultimate fate of the universe. And last week, a team led by Harvard astronomers announced they had seen such shrapnel. What the team observed was a stellar explosion, called a supernova, that was caused by the merger and collision of two white dwarf stars—the shriveled-up remnants of burnt...
...Harvard students only sheepishly admit their interest in finance, repeatedly avow not to “sell out,” and abjure any attraction to filthy lucre. Surely, earning a pay check, in whichever way one chooses to do so, comes with its attendant drudgery: It is the fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist...
What happens at the polls this November could ultimately determine Fowler-Finn’s fate...