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...match the weeks of conferences and the international gathering of scholars that marked the University's 300th birthday in 1936, Harvard officials sought to create a comparatively low-key "family affair" this time around. Maybe it's the domino effect, or the Statue of Liberty syndrome, or the glitz-it-up promotionalism of the Yuppie Era. Call it what you will. But my God, Dr. Frankenstein, Harvard's created a monster. And it's alive...
Even the highest-ranking of University officials acknowledge surprise at the intensity of the media blitz, but not without wondering at the focus on all the glamour and glitz. Maybe they don't realize it, but they're partly responsible. They called a press conference in August to plug the fireworks and other festivities, but the academic symposia, arguably the week's most significant activities, are proceeding with no such promotion...
Within the Kim-Anne-Missy trio, I have changed because of my college label and all that it implies. Inside I am also different from the first-year who matriculated last fall, but that is almost irrelevant. For those blinded by the glitz of the Harvard name, my individuality is insignificant. It upsets me that my college affiliation is a social Great Barrier Reef and that our tight trio is evolving in three different directions, but we still have a bond. We will always have Israel, and we will always have one another. "In my life, I love you more...
...Versace in mid-life, it turns out, was a tempered bon vivant, a high-glitz homebody. After occasional major bashes, like the New Year's Eve soirees he threw for the past two years in South Beach (where guests included everyone from Calvin Klein to Rosie O'Donnell), he might decamp to a gay club called the Warsaw Ballroom with a small group of friends to watch male dancers perform. But he was known as a quiet purveyor of the scene, a man who avoided drugs and heavy drinking. "I once proposed that we go out," recalls his friend Janie...
...shaped by the Depression and World War II. "Boomers," born from 1946 to 1964, grew up in affluence: economic progress was assumed, freeing them to focus on idealism and personal growth. Young Xers, however, lurched through the recession of the early '80s, only to see the mid-decade glitz dissipate in the 1987 stock-market crash and the recession of 1990-91. Gen X could never presume success. In their new book Rocking the Ages, Yankelovich's Smith and his colleague Ann Clurman blame Xers' woes on their parents: "Forget what the idealistic boomers intended, Xers say, and look instead...