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...students in a packed Fong Auditorium on Tuesday. Despite the turnout of Harvard students, Leopold emphasized that the program was seeking students from diverse backgrounds—and other universities. “News flash: this program was not designed for Harvard College,” she said, drawing laughter from the audience. Leopold said in an interview that the program was conceived as a way to attract students who might not otherwise think of business school as an option. Some of the benefits of 2+2—such as access to an HBS career coach?...
...reflects. “But there is something very mature about their approach. I think many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering a career in children’s literature. “It seems so easy to write, theoretically, but I’m scared children wouldn’t actually like my work,” says...
...Faust peers at the seven Eliot residents over her glasses, asks if anyone wants to change anything about Harvard. Roundtable atwitter with nervous laughter. No brilliant suggestions offered...
...pornographic material—spoke candidly, frankly, and often humorously about the sensitive and potentially uncomfortable topic. “Can all the men who masturbated to pornography in the last 48 hours please come down to the front,” Jensen joked at one point amid laughter. “How about in the last ten minutes?” a male student quipped in response. Jensen warned of potentially graphic descriptions in his lecture, but when he launched into the description of the top five most commonly produced “sexual acts,” many...
...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...