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...Four years at Harvard have convinced me that bright young people haven’t lost that ripple of hope, and that our idealism is slowly but surely yielding results. Seeing students participate in community service, political campaigns, protests, Reserve Officer Training Corp, and the hundreds of other activities and organization on this campus has convinced me that the myth of this generation’s apathy and disinterest is just a myth. To be sure, we may be a little careerist. But while Harvard is accused of sending all of its talented students into the black hole of finance...
...sent shockwaves through the Islamic world. In November of last year, Bush ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, suspending that state’s constitution and silencing the dissent that arrives, organically, with true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto’s murder only contributed...
...somewhere where I would not know everything. I lived with a diverse group of people I love, and I learned new things every day. I didn’t do everything right, but I don’t think that anyone did, even if that is the image they hope to project...
...comprised of students rising from that failure, overcoming that fear, and excelling in spite of it. That environment—made up of students who experienced few failures before college and have been humbled by Harvard—makes this school the amazing place that it is. I only hope that, in a place where excellence abounds, Harvard College never loses sight of the importance of failing...
...Let’s hope there’s no danger of that. This is just a big scientific good-will project, and the Russians are just trying to further the common scientific cause. But then again, maybe they’re not. Does anyone know the price of a one-way ticket to Uruguay...