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...loved what classical physics taught him: observation, logic, experimentation and doubt. But Hiroshima changed everything for the young physicist. Learning of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan in 1945, Sakharov related: "I was so stunned that my legs practically gave way. There could be no doubt that my fate and the fate of many others, perhaps of the entire world, had changed overnight. Something new and awesome had entered our lives, a product of the greatest of the sciences, of the discipline I revered." Before long, he found himself seconded to work with an ?lite group ordered to provide...
...addition to the intensification of practice and game schedules, Lewis also says the increasingly professionalized recruiting process often leaves athletes overly beholden to their coaches, who have become more and more active in deciding their fate in the admissions process as the “arms race” has become more competitive...
Simon Schama, a cultural and philosophical historian who teaches history at Columbia University, elicited laughs and a lengthy round of applause with his speech, “The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Ozzy Osbourne...
...Arts, the Gardner Museum, where chamber music was performed on Sunday afternoons, and Symphony Hall were delightful venues and cost next to nothing for students. The Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Society performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra every year and, even if one couldn’t sing (my fate), the opportunity to see one’s classmates performing with one of the great world symphony orchestras was an enormous treat...
...gratitude that often accompanies life’s major milestones. I have found myself stepping back and surveying how much I have changed, appreciating the unpredictable ways in which my view of the world has expanded, and marveling at how I have been the beneficiary of innumerable twists of fate and happy coincidences. Somehow, circumstances have conspired to make me happy here; they have let me prosper within the opportunities, academic and non-academic, provided by Harvard, and I am grateful for that...