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...Before a man can find himself famous, he must first find himself.” Eureka! I thought. If I wanted to become famous at Harvard, I had to first construct a killer Harvard identity. Perhaps I could be a final club-hopping heiress—Sachi Ezura, heir to the Meineke Tire and Brake Pad fortune—but this would require entrepreneurial skills on the part of my parents, let alone more brake pads than we could afford. I could be the fearless leader of a campus abstinence movement, but I doubted anyone would care that I wasn?...
...search for the source of America’s educational woes never flags,” the editors wrote. “This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...
...heir-apparent to the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, Nixon has based his strength on the confidence placed in him by Eisenhower. Republican conservatives who even three years ago saw Nixon as their advocate in the White House are now forced to recognize his loyalty to the “modern Republican” line emanating from Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Nixon led the Republican campaign forces in a rousing and sometimes vicious spirit. This year, when the party is in an even worse way, the heir-apparent will probably be expected to pitch in just as actively. If Nixon does engage in a vigorous and partisan campaign, however, he risks demolishing the glittering image of a mature and moderate statesman which he has built up over the past four years. He has gone a long way towards living down an unfavorable national reputation, but democratic cartoonists love to portray Nixon throwing mud-pies, and any indication...
...heir to the A&P grocery chain, Huntington Hartford inherited a fortune but spent most of his life squandering it. Once one of the world's richest people, Hartford sought renown as an arbiter of taste, but the diverse endeavors he bankrolled--including an art museum he conceived as a response to the spread of modernism, an ill-fated stage adaptation of Jane Eyre and a handwriting institute--were mainly spectacular failures...