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...transcript provided by Bloomberg. "Presidents should know not to go too far," she added. "We saw it with Richard Nixon - claiming national security to break into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, to break into the Democratic National Committee. Well, here we have a president at least giving an implicit go ahead...
...Harvard’s image amongst the lower income brackets will far outweigh the adverse effects of giving a free ride to rich students. Alumni would have much better incentives to help Harvard, and rich parents would also have a greater incentive to donate to Harvard. More importantly, an implicit honor covenant would be established with every graduating class. If you received a free education, wouldn’t you feel like helping out once you get that Morgan Stanley job thanks to your Harvard diploma? The surge in alumni, parent, and graduate giving would offset a large portion...
...Vagina Monologues. One of them was knitting.I went to bed shortly thereafter, pondering if going through the Springfield bus terminal the next day at six in the morning would be either the best of times, or the worst of times.There is something so cloying about the irony implicit in the Harvard metrosexual intellectual or Final Club bon vivant, which is refreshingly lacking at Amherst. People aggressively don’t care about fashion (unlike the mere lack of initiative on the Harvard campus) and you have to admire it. I mean, at least they are practical and substantive. Fiona Apple...
...missing now? Several people familiar with the President's thinking said he despises tangents and long-winded briefings and people who try cover their rears in a swath of verbiage and baloney. He wants "brief, to-the-point" information, said one person who often gives it. The implicit contrast with some on the current team was clear...
...change pushed on the University from outside. Rather than imagining a better world and working towards that goal, students seem content to be on the slightly more progressive side of the establishment, CEOs with cause bracelets.Consciously or unconsciously, too many students seem to defer to the status quo. The implicit assumption is that decisions made in the past deserve respect, not because they have served their purpose, but simply because they were made in the past. The problem, as illustrated by the St. Louis example, is that our predecessors sometimes got it wrong, occasionally horribly so. Past decisions were often...