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...nothing better to do and it will help position me for greater things in the future. But to do any one of those things would be to score points against the teams we should be helping. The idea that we can climb up the long ladder of privilege and then kick it down is farcical. Such a notion could only exist at a place like Harvard, where socially conscious students feel the need to justify their extreme privilege. We’re young and we’re supposed to be idealistic, but too many Harvard students limit themselves...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset, | Title: A Compromising Position | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Minaya, 47, the son of working-class parents, slogged his way up the baseball ladder, becoming the sport's first Hispanic general manager in 2002 when he took over the baseball junkyard known as the Montreal Expos, after being rejected half-a-dozen times for top jobs. The low-budget Expos overachieved under Minaya, earning him a shot with the big-market Mets. In just two years, he has remade a last-place organization lacking credibility into a paradigm of tried-and-true New York. The Mets are a diverse, dramatic (37 come-from-behind wins), free-spirited team that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Mets Got Red Hot | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard, mediocrity is nothing short of unacceptable—even on Saturday night. So chug, party all-star: that glib yet strapping Spee-man from philosophy section seems to be climbing the ladder to social success faster than...

Author: By James H. O'keefe | Title: Blackout Brilliance | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...National Governors Association doesn't let D.C.'s top executive join, even though its annual meetings are held across the street from city hall. In official Washington's clout-counting hierarchy, where lobbyists can seem more glamorous than lawmakers, a municipal election without the chance to move up the ladder doesn't mean much. You just can't get very far in national politics if Washington is your base, and in that Washington, that may be what counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Town Where Voters Don't Show | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...writing, draft, and final paper cycle may make the class one of your most time-consuming. For reasons now lost to antiquity, you refer to your Expos section leader as a “preceptor.” Your preceptor occupies a rung on the staff ladder somewhere above TFs. They are the nomads of the academy. It is considered rude to ask them about their tenure status. The number of A-range grades is rumored to be capped across sections, so competition for grades can be intense. That said, grading is sometimes arbitrary, and naturally some preceptors are more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expository Writing | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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