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...Since halogens were banned from the Yard this year, the steps down the path to squinting adulthood have been brought to historic Harvard standards. This class of first-years has something new in common with the former residents of their rooms, with John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, and Horatio Alger, Class of 1852: they too can experience the Yard dorms as if by candlelight, huddled over their books in the corners of dark, gaping rooms...
...same time, the firm's employees became both rich and famous. Vice President Marc Andreessen was a Horatio Alger for the 1990s, parlaying the fruits of an eight-dollar-an-hour campus coding job into a personal net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars. At one point, Netscape banned real-time stock tickers from company computers, as millionaire employees spent the days watching their net worth increase with the value of their options...
...Detroit Tigers on radio when I can." (One especially likes the "when I can.") And even earnest Jimmy Carter evokes memories--of the "attack rabbit" episode on his rafting vacation out West and of his Freud-grounded introduction of Hubert Humphrey at the 1980 Democratic National Convention as "Hubert Horatio Hornblower." Woodrow Wilson, too, could be impressive. "When enough people are out of work," he observed, "unemployment results...
This sort of behavior seems strangely at odds with the ideal of the American dream, that perennial occupant of this country's collective unconscious which causes us to love the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger, class of 1852, sort of underdog who beats the odds and from poor and humble beginnings acquires vast wealth. If we love successful underdogs as they approach fame and fortune, why do we not continue to love them as they attain ever-higher pinnacles of achievement, whether it be by doubling and redoubling their billions or by winning an increasingly ridiculous number of consecutive championships...
Examples of a close association between sports and city abound--Broadway Joe Namath uses his big-city playboy image to this day; Mickey Mantle, the Oklahoma kid who made it big on America's biggest stage came straight out of a Horatio Alger novel; Hideki Irabu's introduction to New York was Derek Jeter giving him a tour of the Chinatown club scene; and let us not forget the New York Knicks, the lovable bullies of the NBA--the civic myth of New York lives a charmed life within its sports scene...