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...homogeneity can cause us to lose perspective. After hearing me fret over a course grade one of my academic advisors, reminded me “The skills that make you academically successful are different from the skills that are valuable in the workplace.” When you get wrapped up in the measures of and goals of college life, it’s useful to be reminded that Harvard is a four-year world whose influence will eventually yield to that of some employer or spouse you haven’t even met yet—so we should...
...whether retirement communities prevent social integration is a contentious one. Although the concerns may be slightly different in the case of college students, the problem is the same. Living with hundreds of people your age just isn’t normal, so let’s try not to get used...
...Italo Calvino or Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Martel leads his reader on a chase through a house of mirrors. “Beatrice and Virgil” is slyly autobiographical and self-referential. It begins by telling the story of an author named Henry and his struggles to get his latest opus published. He has written a dual book and essay that seek to bring the Holocaust out of the stultifying realm of historical narrative and first-hand accounts into the realm of fiction. According to Henry, it is only in fiction that the memory can live forever and continue...
When Don receives a phone call from the dead Dr. Pryce advising him to get out of town, he does so, despite Sonny’s pleas. But when she begs him to return a few months later, he somewhat inexplicably obliges, only to be further manipulated and taken advantage of. During this second visit, identities are divulged one after the other, allegiances between characters switch every five seconds, and the plot dissolves into a convoluted mess that comes to a head in the aforementioned steak murder scene...
...really gets into my head, because I’m really emotional on the court, and I feel like they’re stealing the point away,” Norton said. “I try not to think about it too much—I get angry, and then I forget about...