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...Because the members of today's graduating class--and some of your professors--were not yet born in 1975, let me begin by briefly surveying the economic landscape in the mid-1970s. The economy had just gone through a severe recession, during which output, income, and employment fell sharply and the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent. Meanwhile, consumer price inflation, which had been around 3 percent to 4 percent earlier in the decade, soared to more than 10 percent during my senior year.1
...decentralized, as the affiliated hospitals operate independently and sometimes even compete with one another.“To bring them together was a very difficult thing,” Nadler said. “Never in the history of Harvard has there been a grant that’s gone across all these entities.”Nadler attributed the collaboration to two forces: an external force in the NIH and Zerhouni, and an internal one in University President Drew G. Faust and Flier, who both felt that this was “the right time for such a transformation...
...last October, not only were all vestiges of high-school Kristina gone, but so too was the “polished” person I had imagined I would be after four years of Harvard education and Crimson enthusiasm. I had expected to change and become more open-minded in college, say, by launching misguided attempts at wearing bangs or dating Republicans. I never anticipated my disenchantment with feminism, Catholicism, journalism, literary criticism, and, nay, even, Yankees Nation-alism. Every year of college had brought different forms of introspection, different groups of friends, and different goals, but three...
...spokesmen since 1999. Mr. McClellan was on hand in August of that year to deflect allegations of cocaine abuse, replying only that his employer had “learned from his mistakes.” Finding Laura, finding Jesus, and abandoning the B & B: a bad-boy-gone-golden narrative is always preferable to the sanctimony of lifelong sobriety...
...start my Ph.D. here in the fall—I want to delay graduation just as much as my friends who will be leaving Cambridge for good because the Harvard I have grown to love, the Harvard made up of my peers in the Class of 2008, will be gone when I return...