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...high-profile company. The brokerage Bear Stearns wound up dogless a few weeks ago. Bear Stearns, known for extreme self-interest, couldn't find a friend to throw it a lifeline. Now it's as good as gone...
...When considered from this perspective, their work doesn’t seem quite as heedless. Artists making art indistinct from the ways in which they live their lives certainly has precedence, most notably in Nan Goldin and her documentation of the chemical highs and lows of her uninhibited friends in pre-AIDS New York. Much of the reason that Goldin’s work has been elevated to the level it currently occupies, however, is the cultural relevance of her subject matter. Her pictures tenderly tell the story of the pained collapse of the demimonde she inhabited...
...nothing says Harvard like the Wu-Tang Clan. In his 2001 film How High, Clan member Method Man smokes marijuana fertilized by the ashes of his dead friend in order to ace his entrance exam and score admission to Harvard College, setting an excellent example for prospective applicants everywhere. Wu-Tang lyrics are filled with culturally astute allusions, perfect for Harvard eggheads (i.e., “Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses / Can’t define how I be droppin’ these mockeries”). Other verses address issues salient to Harvard students, like the Mather residents...
...really wanted to understand the student experience and try to make it better in new ways, be creative, and also understand what was going on in the students’ lives,” said Robert N. Shapiro ’72, a close family friend and member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s alumni-elected governing board...
...centered on the story of Yalini. Yalini is the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants to the United States, her father a doctor and her mother a school teacher. She goes to university, where she studies incessantly and makes only one friend—in fact, he makes her his friend by refusing to allow her to withdraw from him as she did from all of her other fellow classmates. While one can relate to her sensitive and perceptive mind, her extreme and, at times, self-righteous reticence proves frustrating. After 9/11, she perceives only her desire for solitude as true...