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While Harvard undergrads are racing from class to extracurricular to evening section, trying to cram in a half-hour of treadmill time before hunkering down in Lamont for a late-night cram session, I’m lounging on Sydney’s glorious Bondi Beach. Over the last few months, the most multitasking I’ve done has been trying to apply sunscreen while thumbing through the pages of a coursepack saturated in ocean spray...
...Armed Forces, eventually leaving, according to Gilroy, who added that this “unpatriotism” made Hendrix’s journey to peace even more convincing. “We must always remember that Hendrix was a soldier,” he said. At the half-hour question-and-answer session held after the lecture, Gilroy responded to a question about the role of feeling in music. “One good thing about music,” Gilroy said, “is that when it hits you, you feel no pain.” When asked...
...most of Harvard’s history, the answer has been a resounding yes. The early seventeenth century College required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
...there's something in the New York Times that's not in the Post or the Wall Street Journal. Then sometimes during the day I get a chance to read special things in the papers from London. And I check our Web sites for half an hour at most...
...between all of that are filled with the pure tedium of daily life in an armed camp. So it's a bit of a struggle to think of anything to put into a letter that's worth reading. Worse, this place just consumes you. I work 18-20-hour days, every day. The quest to draw a clear picture of what the insurgents are up to never ends. Problems and frictions crop up faster than solutions. Every challenge demands a response. It's like this every day. Before I know it, I can't see straight, because...