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...ailments, as is coming to terms with our inability to accurately predict what is to come. We cannot foretell the changing tides of Heraclitus’ river. Yet learning to fail inherently means learning to curb our hubris—and that is a lesson of personal growth I hope each of us takes through the gates...
...than 800 people a few years ago to around 500 last year. Despite the financial challenges the Foundation currently faces, Giles voiced optimism about the future of the Nieman Foundation’s narrative program. “We’re suspending it, not eliminating it, so we hope to get the program going again in a couple of years,” he said. In the meantime, the Foundation will maintain its commitment to narrative journalism through the continued operation of the Nieman Narrative Digest, the Foundation’s Web site on narrative journalism. The digest?...
...that it’s so easy to live on campus for months or even years without really experiencing what psychologists call cognitive dissonance, the feeling of holding two contradictory ideas at the same time. While questioning our positions generally feels unnatural, few things are as essential. I sincerely hope that after four years here, we will be more inclined to change our minds when exposed to new facts...
...members of the Class of 2009 preparing to leave Harvard, it is fairly natural for us to reflect upon our four years within these walls. We ask whether it was worth the money and the time. What is the purpose of a good education? How do we hope to apply the knowledge we have gained here...
...with according referenda on the ballot in several states. Unfortunately, special interest groups had such an influence that the majority of people in those states voted to deny rights to a significant minority. We were strongly against Prop 8 in California and its equivalent in other states; now, we hope that these referenda will be overturned in the future, for these couples deserve the opportunity to marry. Another area in which homosexuals are continually denied rights is the United States army. This year, there was a great amount of attention paid to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program...