Word: hadn
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...wouldn't say I really found a niche in CityStep. As much as I loved my fellow teachers, I sometimes felt like the only one who hadn't been a high school cheerleader in a former life (or a few year ago). And I wouldn't say I felt like I made an important contribution to society. CityStep claims to be this program for city kids who wouldn't be exposed to the stuff otherwise, but I taught as many upper-income as low-income kids (Cambridge is a pretty diverse place), making me wonder why some of the kids...
Starting again wasn't easy, though, and I would have ended up as the Perpetual Other if I hadn't made a conscious effort not to. I lived in off-campus overflow housing for a few months and couldn't move into the dorm system until the beginning of junior year. I roamed from comp to comp before winding up as design editor at The Crimson. Even now, most of the people I know at Harvard are Crimson editors, gov jocks, ec nerds, Russophiles or transfers...
...year as a Weldian, I hadn't known. Sure, the paint was peeling a little and the water pressure was poor. Sure, I shivered in front of a space heater when the room grew freezing cold. But I always assumed that because Harvard gave me this room, it had to be adequate...
...just before the Harvard Yard exploded with student protest. "There was intense questioning then," she recalls. "I had a law degree, but I hadn't really been encouraged to think. And Harvard was just facing up to the fact that there were inequalities of sex and race." Also, the Harvard method of teaching was different, emphasizing discussion and examining unresolved ambiguities...
...producing the babies that male politicians are required to kiss and attempting to humanize such characters as George Bush and Michael Dukakis, women will finally seize power for themselves. But the optimists are forgetting what might be called Murphy's Law of feminist struggle -- if the very word Murphy hadn't become so politically charged in the past few weeks -- which goes like this: When women get to take over some field of human endeavor, it is usually because that field has been downgraded to the level of broom pushing...