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...Mach admits that her A&F collection is sadly limited to “a few of the sweatshirts.” Other recruits were similarly apathetic—there was hardly an embroidered moose in the room. But Secrest remained unfazed by Harvard’s lack of spirit. “It’s a casual brand,” he says, casually...
...There are other reasons to pay attention while inside this country, and on fight night it didn't take long to discover just why. The cops were waiting outside the arena to shake down the approaching guests for any number of supposed infractions, such as a lack of local passport registration or just looking sufficiently moneyed but insufficiently connected. The police parked a battered old bus near the entrance, and once they hauled someone inside, it cost minimum $40 to secure an exit...
...Inside the arena, there was a conspicuous lack of Western Europeans or Americans - strange for a title bout involving the biggest name heavyweight American fighter left. The only noticeable foreigners were those attached to the event itself, the pint-sized Latin fighters on the undercard and the backslapping members of the sport's professional traveling circus...
...destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible.’”And while Conant, according to Faust, expressed confidence that Harvard would uphold the same core values if it continued to exist, Faust cited “a widespread lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be,” arguing that the institutions are “at once celebrated and assailed.”“We must recognize our accountability to the wider world,” Faust said, “for, as John Winthrop warned...
While the purposelessness of the acquisition—and the odd sense of fiscal priorities it represents—might be misinterpreted as the source of our frustration, this lack of nuance wouldn’t do justice to our much more discriminating taste. In fact, it is the symbolic significance of the monitors and kiosks that disturbs us most...