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Earlier, Harvard made a habit of clawing back from multiple-goal deficits like the one it faced in the third quarter...
...prerequisites: a kid who has left the nest for college, 25 years at the same company, hot flashes and an outdated hairstyle. The problem is, I can't quite squeeze it in. I've got this 11-year-old daughter who, while quite tolerant of my yoga habit, just might go off the rails if I indulge my yen for a six-month retreat at an ashram in Kerala. Then there's the college-tuition bill. Do you think Skidmore would cook up an emergency scholarship for my son if my contribution to the family income suddenly dropped...
...Hans Bethe, and Richard Feynman, among others. The heavy responsibility of overseeing these great minds and building the bomb wore away at Oppenheimer. Two years in, he only carried a gaunt 115 pounds on a 5-foot-10-inch frame, and his four-to-five pack-a-day cigarette habit did not help his health. These chapters in the book center on the physicists’ lives while leaving the scientific aspects on the backburner—a focus that most readers will find to be an asset rather than a liability...
Oppenheimer had his silent revenge, though. Strauss’s unconscionable actions against the famed scientist led senators to reject his appointment as commerce secretary. Oppenheimer lived out the rest of his days at Princeton, dying at age 62 when his smoking habit finally caught up with him in the form of cancer. Oppenheimer had been publicly redeemed though. He received the Fermi Prize for public service from President Johnson, and he was portrayed sympathetically in a 1964 play that attracted international acclaim...
...argument is that the gift gets people into a habit of giving, so that they continue to donate after graduating. Another is that a high participation rate projects a sense of satisfaction among the students, inspiring alumni to give more. Neither argument holds water...