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While Summers suggested during the now famous National Bureau of Economic Research conference in January that discrimination has become a less significant factor in modern times, the exclusive selection of members from the tight-knit all-white, all-male group for top financial positions demonstrates otherwise. It is difficult for qualified women and minorities to obtain high-powered positions in part because private equity—the field in which the Harvard Management Company president and board members are likely to come from—is a notoriously insular field (which usually does not include minorities or women). Hopefully recent...
...Zakharevich ’06 will rarely come up for air. She’ll still get into hour-long debates with friends over whether Mel Gibson was a one-dimensional character in Braveheart. And by then, every single person she has ever known will have a hand-knit case for her iPod...
This is the sort of anecdote to which I have subjected my sainted roommates on an hourly basis in the six days since I turned in my thesis about Byron. I have also, in that time, slept a lot, returned 43 books to Widener, washed my clothes, and knit half a scarf—all in the hopes of eradicating the Christmas-afternoon feeling that has been haunting me since 5 o’clock Tuesday. It hasn’t worked. I can still feel Byron, poor man, unhouseled and perching on my bookshelf...
...Crafty, a guide to do-it-yourself style, and creator of the website getcrafty.com "The idea is that we consume consciously," says Railla, 34. "That might mean you wear jeans from Old Navy, a T shirt you deconstructed from a thrift store, a vintage blazer and a hand-knit scarf...
...bulk of the book consists of what Marianne’s grandmother tells her. The story is knit loosely together by a number of objects Sadie possesses, loses, and, in some cases, finds again—a knife, a Congo bowl with magical healing properties, a hat dear to her Jim, a child’s tooth, a prized button. It is convincing and compelling as an oral narrative, most moving and successful where it most closely approximates direct speech (“You close your eyes and feel our love coming up behind you,” Sadie tells...