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...excellent way to show you care is to join the ACLU—the student group if you’re in school next year, or by giving yourself a graduation gift of a membership. As our motto says, "Because freedom cannot protect itself...
...democratization of Harvard goes back to its founding and Anne Radcliffe’s gift of Harvard’s first scholarship. Over the centuries, other efforts followed, with increased financial aid and more effective recruiting. With the commencement of the National Scholarship Program announced at Harvard’s Tercentenary celebration in 1936, President James B. Conant, class of 1914, committed Harvard to broaden such efforts in ways not imagined previously...
Many of these changes have been for the good. The Soviet Union disintegrated in a Christmas gift to the world, and the Berlin Wall fell without a shot being fired. Former South African President Nelson R. Mandela walked a remarkably peaceful path from prison to the presidency. Peace came to Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement. The light of democracy swept across some of the darkest corners of the globe, and the number of democracies expanded from 69 in 1989 to 119 today. And if you still don’t believe that anything is possible, the New England...
...find those people here: the guy who, despite being chained to a desk for 14 hours a day, still remembers to send you a birthday gift; the guy who, despite the looming deadline for his thesis on “The Commercial Paper Funding Facility,” still manages to read your column every week...
Allow me to elaborate. As sportswriters and editors, we attempt to make every win into Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” in 1989 and every choke into The Curse of the Bambino. We take the gift of gab—oh, sorry, the BS skills—that got us to this great institution and dress our tales of Harvard sporting events in diamonds and pearls as if they were our own resumes...