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Again, in the absence of any rigorous evidence, I would suggest that the transfer students I’ve met here have not been more driven (read: manic) than their lifer counterparts, but less so: they seem to have ended up where they know they will be not merely successful but happy. Whereas each class of high school seniors that touches down in Cambridge each fall undoubtedly consists of a sizable pack of strays who, in search of some pedigree in the snafu of college applications, have ended up where they can afford to be dedicated to success and little...
...misplaced pessimism began with this statement: "It's mass gloom that opens doors to outsiders like [Ross] Perot and [Mike] Bloomberg" [July 16]. This may be Kristol's view, but for many others the "gloom" is about improving the nation. America can be greater than a bunch of lifer politicians who view the world through the haze of their intoxication with power and privilege. Abe WalkingBear Sanchez, CANON CITY, COLORADO...
...times and will remain poverty stricken despite the rest of the world's climate policy. I have sympathy for the people of Darfur, but advocating steps to stop global warming is just wishful thinking, and using the people of Darfur to further a purely political agenda is despicable. John Lifer Jr., Clinton, Mississippi...
...only unnecessarily paints abortion as a predominantly spiritual issue to which many cannot relate, but it also creates a potentially irreconcilable segregation between “pious pro-lifers” and “blasphemous, pro-choice killers.” It builds an image of the pro-lifer as a judgmental preacher, rather than a compassionate rationalist...
Arthur T. von Mehren ’42, a trailblazer in the study of international law who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, died of pneumonia on Jan. 16. He was 83. “He was essentially a Harvard lifer,” said his son Peter A. von Mehren ’77. “He arrived at Harvard in 1939 when he was 17 years old and spent the rest of his life there. He devoted his entire life to being a scholar in the Harvard community.” Von Mehren grew...