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...social and loved as one, and then another, and then another, budding relationship would fail. I watched my roommates succumb to depression as their fundamental ideas of themselves were shattered by the social demands placed on them at Harvard. Although we all enjoyed our classes, the one lesson we avowedly did not want to learn was precisely that which my sophomore year fling tried to offer me, a lesson in how to be alone...
...there is a lesson to be learned from the happenings of the past year, it is this: Today’s world is a complex sociopolitical system, one that resists speculation from the narrow or clouded lens. From Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in interdepartmental squabbles and where an unmet quorum can constitute the positive derailment of progress, international crises can present themselves as geopolitical Gordian knots: impossible to disentangle entirely and inclined only to tighten further after the overzealous jerk of careless hands...
...companies that drive its booming economy had struck again. That, he said, should answer my question about whether the Maoist insurgents went easy on some mining companies in the area so as to force them to pay protection money and bribes instead. "If the public wants to teach a lesson to Essar, then we'll teach them a lesson," said Deva...
...agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against the dollar over six months. Yet Iceland never defaulted on a single loan, signaling a disconnect between foreign perception and domestic reality. "We learned our lesson: we need to tell our story," says Árni Mathiesen, Iceland's Minister of Finance. "Other people are more likely to tell the wrong story or misinterpret...
Rescorla taught Morgan Stanley employees to save themselves. It's a lesson that has become, somehow, rare and precious. When the tower collapsed, only 13 Morgan Stanley colleagues - including Rescorla and four of his security officers - were inside. The other 2,687 were safe...