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...only way to get a real idea of Simons’ talent, without pawing through his high school records, is to see him with a buzzer in his hand??or to listen to others who have...
...world in a grain of sand,” he writes in a New York Times essay that “the short story concentrates on its grain of sand, in the fierce belief that there—right there, in the palm of its hand??lies the universe…In that single grain of sand lies the beach that contains the grain of sand...
...Docx’s St. Petersburg is a living city imbued with the qualities of its gloomy, exotically seedy history. As much as the novel revolves around the dead Maria—who, however central to the plot, is always peripheral to the character immediately at hand??it also revolves around St. Petersburg and what the city represents. Even in a description of heavy machinery, Docx evokes the city’s ominous milieu: “The crane outside the window had begun to sink into the mud below, or rather had begun to subside, so that...
Each and every day, crowds of tourists—cameras in hand??swarm a seated, stoic John Harvard. While the statue—the third most photographed in the United States—and its supposedly lucky golden toe act as the hub of tourist activity in Harvard Yard, other statues and paintings that adorn the Yard manage to attract little more than dust—and maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about...
...name a few, become liabilities when they burden us with high levels of stress, which 62 percent of Harvard students reportedly experience. Accustomed to success, we place unjustifiably high expectations on ourselves. Many of us have been told that at Harvard, no one will “hold your hand?? and we have consented to this idea. Though regarded as some of the best students in the world, even the most independent and self-confident among us need encouragement and support when faced with new challenges. To call this a sign of weakness is not only a gross...