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...doesn’t Mohammed live there? Reports and rumors I’d heard of police brutality he’d seen firsthand. He knew he was risking much more than I, who vaguely imagined a motorcade of black Tahoes would come screeching up to the prison gate, loosing a platoon of American soldiers, lawyers and diplomats who would demand my release. But arguing that local journalists who help us do our coverage know what they’re risking is like arguing that sweatshop workers are better off in a sweatshop than having no job at all. Where?...
...threshold of Harvard Yard and Massachusetts Avenue stands Dexter Gate, donated to the college in 1890. It cuts through Wigglesworth Hall, and anybody who lives in a river house walks through it at least once a day. But for all of its traffic, few students notice the carved inscriptions in the stone arch above the gate. The outside of the gate reads, “Enter to grow in wisdom,” while the inside bears the message, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
...turns out, I did have it wrong. I forgot that in order to enter a gate, you first need to be outside of it. If there was one piece of advice I wish I had been given four years ago, it would be to leave Harvard once in a while, if only for a few hours into Boston, to return refreshed and with a little perspective. Whether I was riding the T to the end of the line just to see what was there (not much), shopping on Newbury Street or lining up for student rush tickets at Jordan Hall...
...library at 4 A.M., nothing seems very clear, least of all the “wisdom” that Dexter Gate suggests we should be gaining. Much of the competition for success, however students define it, seems to lead towards post-graduation plans. For 58 percent of men and 43 percent of women graduating from Harvard, that means finance or consulting...
...sensitive situations. More telling was that another Children's Day celebration planned for a Dujiangyan primary school not far from Juyuan Middle School was canceled. As young girls and boys walked to the school's entrance before 8 a.m., they were greeted by a sign at the front gate that said because of concerns about the safety of parents and their children, festivities would not take place. Instead, those who showed up were given pamphlets explaining that hygiene was very important after an earthquake. Wu Xia, a mother who came with her 11-year-old daughter, said the explanation "seemed...