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...been crossed off the list. The three leading candidates were Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, then provost of the University and a life-long Harvard man; Lee C. Bollinger, then president of the University of Michigan and an unorthodox administrator who wowed the committee with his intellect; and, of course, Summers...
...outstanding American artist today...and represents great values,” Counter said. “[She is] honest, decent...I am impressed with her intellect and her knowledge of people and events...
...academic life—the classes offered, what is expected of the students, the way grades are given—on his way to concluding that Harvard is, as its critics have long suspected, easy. Harvard students are “creatively lazy,” committing their considerable intellect to achieving the highest grades with the least amount of effort...
With or without a diploma, not everyone getting married at Memorial Church uses their Ivy League intellect. Edington tells of a groom who decided to get his hair cut mere minutes before the start of the ceremony. But that’s not the all-time best wedding blooper. According to Edington, that honor belongs to “the bride who asked, just before the wedding began, whether the best man could stand in for the groom—because the groom ‘isn’t feeling well today.’ Answer: very, very...
...articles and essays throb with unforgettable details?how the English philosopher Bertrand Russell spoke with exaggerated e's, how Gandhi was extremely eager to know more about Sigmund Freud?that leave the reader with a vivid sense of Mehta's personality, and with his gifts of curiosity, sympathy and intellect. Above all, it is his essays, not his memoirs, that testify to the tenacity and talent that allowed this blind man from an impoverished country to sidestep his bad luck, take full advantage of his good luck, and turn himself into one of the world's best-known journalists...