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...have no respect for Harvard," Mansfield said. "You don't consider it as anything bigger or grander than yourself, something to which you might be devoted...
...into the marketplace. In Hong Kong researchers are already working on projects for clients ranging from a small machine-tool manufacturer in Nanjing, China, to big multinationals like U.S.-based Motorola. Taiwan's scientists have taken on everything from vaccines to satellite communications, and many harbor even grander dreams. "In a few years," confides an aspiring biotechnologist, "I hope to start my own company...
...conversations with The Crimson, three students elaborated the frustrations and rewards of the work they put into last weekend's Arts first festival, and reflected upon the grander scheme of artistic activity at Harvard. Their testimony reveals the neglect of the arts, and the struggle some students undertake to revive them...
...know that may speak to things he cannot. "The very sky, the speech, all those things I inherited from the fact that I was born in Ireland, and what you make of them is what's important," he stated. What he makes of them, perhaps, is the grander things he cannot know: "Sometimes you realize all stories are the same story, and the quality of the language is what counts, because you're reading about your own life...
...polygraph, searching his face for hints of lies and evasion. He had better not just act his character but also be it. That is Day-Lewis' goal and gift: to be so true to his characters that they need never be sentimentalized, made to seem finer, grander, wickeder or more appealing...