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...most elite universities are lucky to be at institutions where admission is becoming more and more of a daunting task. Our lives look relatively easy on the surface: We live with our friends in an intellectual environment—on our parents’ dime, no less??with few pressures or worries lasting longer than a semester...
...comes to Viswanathan, waxing self-righteous. Viswanathan has even been compared to Barry Bonds and the Duke lacrosse team. To be sure, some degree of criticism is warranted, even needed. Half-million dollar book deals are not signed every day—by a seventeen-year-old, no less??and this type of success must necessarily be yoked to a high level of scrutiny, lest we cheapen true achievement. But treating Viswanathan with the same lack of judiciousness with which she herself treated McCafferty sinks this affair to a new low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions...
...push him...I’m saying, ‘Lance, let’s go! You can get this guy!’”Salsgiver credits a counterintuitive, decidedly un-Harvard approach to his summertime success. He was aggressive rather than patient: “thinking less?? and swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations with the Oakland A’s, San Diego Padres...
...central role in the current biology-centered technological revolution. To that end, he championed initiatives like the Broad Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, endeavors which placed Harvard in the center of the life sciences. Inevitably, allocating resources to the life sciences meant conflict as other areas got less??or at least smaller increases in their budgets—but the only way to avoid conflict of this type is to have leaders whose choices and budgets are guided by more than mere incrementalism. That is a sure path towards mediocrity...
...your glowstick on in a smaller venue, someplace you can rave without worrying about grabby fratboys and their backwards hats? Faced with these problems, Hotspot had no choice but to search out an alternative one Friday night. We did find debauchery—in South Boston, no less??just not the sort we expected. Hotspot’s associate led us to a nondescript glass door marked with the RISE logo. Once on the other side, a remarkably congenial bouncer examined our guide’s card and allowed us to enter. You see, RISE...