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Raised in Washington, D.C., Agarwalla, whose parents are from Northern India, started learning Latin in seventh grade...
...came here knowing how to write a paper. As long as you turn in things and know what they are supposed to look like, you can’t get a bad grade in history classes,” he says. “I’ve never had a professor, a semester, or a course where I was like...
...Certainly, there is more diversity than ever before, but the College remains the home of countless black tie balls, lavish dinners and drunken garden parties. As a result many observers seem to think that spoiled students can idle away their time here, thanks in large part to rampant grade inflation, before slipping effortlessly into the upper echelons of American society...
...wonderful thing about Harvard is that it takes driven and talented people and forces them to discover what really matters to them. Though many of us balanced six extracurriculars and stellar grade-point averages in high school, at Harvard we learned that there wasn’t time for everything. We had to prioritize. And in so doing, we learned invaluable lessons about ourselves. What we Harvard undergraduates do at 5 a.m. tells us more about ourselves than our college applications ever...
That’s the elementary moral reason for letting gays and lesbians marry—the logic that eighth-grade civics students can grasp and only the hateful can oppose. But the case for gay marriage goes far beyond such basic principles of freedom; it is grounded in the pragmatic realities of the world. In a nation where homosexuals cannot marry, countless people are prevented from visiting their dearest loved ones in hospitals. For no other reason than their sexual orientation, couples are ineligible for the tax benefits given to two people of opposite genders who visit a justice...