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There’s even a kind of respect for the fellows, down on their luck as they are. They’re almost anachronisms, like highwaymen, egoistic outlaws from a distant past. They see an opportunity for gain, and take it; they are Overmen, perpetually transcending the mundane. Maybe that’s the best reason for bailing the financial industry out: They’re exciting—like modern-day pirates, only better. James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
Kennedy School Professor Robert D. Putnam, an authority on social capital best known for his essay “Bowling Alone,” will gain a hand with his research on civic involvement, thanks to a grant given to the Kennedy School of Government’s Saguaro Seminar, by the Corporation for National and Community Service...
...material. Yet at Harvard Law School and its peer institutions, the letter grading system provides far less in the way of usefulness. Any student capable of graduating from HLS has already demonstrated a high level of proficiency and drive simply by generating the grades and scores necessary to gain admission and completing the coursework while there. Law students are admitted as adults, not naïve adolescents, and their past records speak volumes to their capabilities. The answer to the question of which graduates possess basic competence is simple: they all do. In this rarefied context, the need for quantitative...
...African rhino, the species that draw crowds to zoos. The thinking is that by getting the public to support the protection of these animals, the wildlife that exists beneath them - the sort of animals most of us would pass on the way to see the elephants - would gain protection as well...
...Each of the bold moves brought McCain short-term political gain, throwing the normally unflappable Obama off his stride and keeping the Republican nominee very much in the presidential hunt in a dismal year for Republicans. But the tactics also contained the potential for long-term political costs by distracting from, or eroding, the central McCain message. By comparing Obama to a vacuous Hollywood starlet, McCain found a coherent critique of Obama but relinquished his own ability to rise above the political maw. By choosing Sarah Palin, he lit a grass fire of GOP enthusiasm but risked undermining his ticket...