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Whitaker particularly recalls one of Alter’s “scoops,” a story he broke about two MIT women, Roxanne Ritchie and Susan Gilbert, who had compiled a list??complete with starred ratings—ranking the performance of the 36 men with whom they had slept. Their article ran in the MIT’s alternative weekly under the headline, “The Consumer Guide...
...which, so it seemed to me at the time, constituted a veritable barrage of hard-hitting, muckraking journalism. Having served as a summer school proctor the previous summer, I decried the practice of granting degree credit for watered down, easy summer courses. I expressed righteous indignation at the Z-list??the Admissions Office’s de facto special help program for the children of wealthy alumni. I ranted and raved about the pervasive cheating that occurs on problem sets in large lecture courses. And what change did I effect through all this writing? None, of course, whatsoever...
...Mleczko ’99, and Tammy Shewchuk ’01, the first line of attack in Harvard’s 33-1-0 championship season in 1999. That year, Mlezcko finished with 114 points—tops on Harvard’s all-time single season score list??Shewchuk finished with 105 and Botterill finished with 88. That made for a total of 307 points for the line...
...beyond the classroom. The professor jokes that he first realized his work was reaching people beyond just psychologists went The New York Times put his new book, How the Mind Works, on a list of “Worst Books to Take to the Beach.” The list??s author, Pinker says, found the book’s biological focus disturbing...
Back Bay made the New York Times bestseller list??and made the 29-year-old Martin a rising star. Twenty-four years later, the book is still in print...