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...think there is such a morbid fascination with certain suicides, sometimes even centuries after they took place? Because suicides are like riddles with the answers left out. So people are constantly struggling to find that "aha" moment - the event or encounter that pushed someone over the edge from sadness to suicide. There is this need to know what made them do it - and, perhaps, how it could have been prevented...
...Market offers everything from freshly-made sandwiches and sushi to hot entrees and hard-to-find imported cookies and candy. Plus it’s always open. Some may complain it’s expensive, but must cheap drunks eat cheap drunk food...
...There is a possibility that they are thematically linked. I find it useful to think of the three books as a trilogy, and that name is part of what ties them together and is a sort of road sign for the way they are tied together...
...find interesting the interface between people who have real say in policy in foreign places, and an institution like this. So there are people, like Alex de Waal, for example, and like people in the Kennedy School, or on the faculty here, who make decisions that, occasionally, have real life implications. And also people who are recruited out of here into intelligence agencies, or the army, or anything like that. And I have romanticized that idea and taken it to its conclusion: “Uh oh, what if we’re all still sort of in college...
...Where to find you at 3 a.m. on a typical weekend: “At least, hopefully I won’t be cleaning up my roommate’s vomit.” “Sleeping. Hopefully in my own room.” “Pretending to do homework.” “Straddling John Harvard’s head reading an organic chemistry book with no pants on.” Which House you’d want to live in: “Lowell, Leveritt [sic], Winthrop, Adams. Basically anything but Mather...