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...such menial capacities. In the rush of all the events during the school year, we never seem to have time to pause and step off the high road of the Harvard undergraduate. Through Dorm Crew, we are literally given the tools to broaden our minds, a ladder to descend from the ivory tower. Somewhere in that broom lies a life lesson that struggles to impart itself; we ought to be open enough to allow the humility of hard manual labor to take hold...
...vision, and we weren’t constrained by previous models. None of us knew what it was supposed to look like. We used our imagination,” Li says. In the musical, Li plays J. Pierpont Finch, whose humorous climb up the corporate ladder provides the story’s momentum. “It’s a show that’s full of energy. It’s funny and definitely something worth seeing,” says fellow castmate Matthew T. McClure ’09. Livingston says, “There?...
...wasteful federal spending, which he said would be accomplished by banning congressional earmarks and reviewing efficiency of the cabinet-level agencies. He says he expects these policies, including a continuation of a lower capital gains tax rate, to help the economy grow, benefiting those at the bottom of the ladder as much as those higher...
...among more literary types. After all, isn’t the wonderful world of science fiction the territory of pimply, socially awkward teenagers? This would be true if our world was still a world where life was a simple morality play that was played out on the great supernatural ladder of being and was guided by one part fate and one part justice. However, our world is not that world. Instead we live in the 21st century proper—a world where the pawns are now also the chess masters and a gaze at the stars is no longer...
...climbed up the political power ladder as Attorney General of New York, prosecuting white-collar crime, securities fraud, and even prostitution. He ascended to the Governorship in 2006, promising voters a change in “the ethics of Albany.” Ironically, just two years into office, Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught spending $4,300 for a few hours with a prostitute. It appears that Spitzer, more so than Albany, needs to change his brand of ethics. Given that his was a political career shaped by a fight against corporate corruption, Spitzer’s hypocrisy...