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...part from it—the night was made for loving!—but it is time to move on. We’ll finish our theses; we’ll graduate. For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. It is a lesson I will be absorbing, with difficulty, between now and June. In the meantime, though, I’d be glad to tell you about the time that Byron swam the Hellespont...
Since all the students think they're better drivers than they really are, school starts with a lesson in braking for the eight enrollees. "I'm sure you're all experts at flooring the accelerator," says Matt Mullins, one of the instructors, "but how many of you are used to flooring the brake pedal?" No hands go up, and Mullins proceeds to illustrate how to recover from a spinout, slide through a curve, aim for the apex in a corner and accelerate out. Geared up with helmets, we head out to the skid pad, then move on to a lesson...
...treatment of various professors, and above all, his extremely charged feud with African American Studies star Cornel R. West ’74. Factions of the faculty were in an uproar, and in reporting the unrest, the national press painted Summers as a man who simply never learned his lesson...
Larry Summers’ mission from now on needn’t include more apologies. He obviously recognizes his mistake—the question is: What lesson will he learn...
Innate-gate’s real lesson is much less sweeping: Recognize that words matter, so choose them carefully. Continue standing strong for your beliefs—Harvard is well-served by a public intellectual for a president—but communicate them with respect. While aggressive goal-setting is a vital part of leadership, so is earning the trust of those with whom you disagree...