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...chose, with the low-income initiative, to send the strongest possible message to families across the nation that Harvard is??really and truly—an option for exceptionally talented students whatever their financial means,” Summers told nearly 1,600 graduating seniors gathered in Tercentenary Theater in June...
...Whatever else one may think about Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is??suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright who tends to embellish everything...
...these facts, among others, we must make sure Harvard spends a proper share of its endowment on its students. After all, it is our presence on campus that makes this institution of higher education the beautiful Ivory Tower that it is??and surely there are no people more deserving than ourselves of the benefits of Harvard’s economic superiority. So I stand up and raise my voice in favor of the protection we are entitled...
...This case reminds me of the famous 1896 14th District Court case Brownnose vs. Raisemygrade…have you read it?”), and ludicrously simple questions designed to make one seem actively engaged (“I don’t understand what a table is??could you draw it on the board for me?”). Those who find themselves unable to tolerate the ridiculousness of their sections spend most of their time doodling in their notebooks, playing Minesweeper on their laptops, or simply daydreaming about how sleeping would be a more productive...
...think you just have to do what you do,” he says, “if there’s something cheesy about it, then there it is?? And I guess all you can do is just say, ‘this is what we are, this is what we do, and let things follow what they will.’” Sage words, indeed...