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While composing just a fraction of their class, which numbered over 1,000 students, the four pioneers proved to exhibit great influence as leaders of the College’s most active student organizations...
...shrugged her shoulders. “Harvard,” I replied, and in a flash, her eyes lit up with excitement. “Harvard?! Amazing.” It is amazing—in a perverted and peculiar sense. We 6,600 students are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of collegians around the world, and yet we (along with our professors, our campus, and our endowment) epitomize elite, higher education in the minds of millions. So when the local, national, or international media uncovers a “bad” egg among...
...members and lying about a former associate's affiliation with the terrorist group. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. But though guidelines call for 46 to 57 months in prison, al-Arian, who was born in Kuwait and has some family in Egypt, will serve only a fraction of that time and then be deported to an as yet undetermined country...
...daunted. It’s a very big job, and it’s been very well done in the past by Peter Buck, so I’m just hoping to do a fraction as well as he’s done,” said Shapin, who has written for The New Yorker and regularly contributes to the London Review of Books...
...your prerogative,” Tannenwald said. “But that’s probably step number 10 on the solution list. It makes much more sense to talk to the professors, to talk to your TFs.” But Kline said that it was unclear what fraction of students who skip are doing so out of protest. “An ‘unoffficial boycott’ seems to me [a] paradox,” Kline wrote. “How it is to be distinguished from mere absence, or laziness?” Both Frieden...