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...being able to sign up the most residents to play and therefore to command the largest armies. He was spot on, but with no House, big or small, successfully signing up its entire population, the injustice didn’t seem that major. “Sorry, but war isn??t fair,” we wrote. Curt, perhaps, but honest...
It’s distinctly unoriginal to point out that Harvard students are born and bred overachievers, hypercompetitive by nature. Harvard undergraduates tend to be the sort of people who are practiced at delivering the exhortation that “winning isn??t everything” without a shadow of irony, yet completely disingenuously. Put them at the helm of make-believe armies in a campus-wide game of Risk and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with their darker side; a ruthless ambition to win so intense that anyone who dares...
...time at Harvard draws to a close, and as the other classes continue their inevitable movement through this school, I think we could all benefit from some renewed sense of humility, and an awareness that we might not be quite as special as we would like to imagine. This isn??t a pejorative, just the truth. It might even help us understand those bright, carefree “college days” that are so rapidly drawing to a close...
...theocons’ basic premise is wrong: Demography isn??t destiny. In fact, the phrase is nothing but a meaningless platitude, an intellectual dilettante’s bon mot. The weight of population didn’t enable Russia to dominate Europe—instead the Tsar’s kingdom was long dominated by puny Sweden—and didn’t prevent Britain from defeating China or conquering India...
...believed that he was used as a measure of my credibility, which isn??t necessarily bad, but it has to be more transparent,” Belanger says...