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Take this post from the blog Boston Confidential: "Miss Viswanathan’s story is based on her own life, a tale of an ultra-achieving Indian girl whose ambitions seem boundless and whose (apparently) Machiavellian methods are perhaps too eagerly rewarded by over-indulgent parents." Replace "Indian" with another category (besides "East Asian," which has a similar reputation)—try it with, say, "French"—and this claim doesn’t quite make sense...
Payzant said that while there are things he will miss once he assumes the senior lectureship position, he was eager to begin this new phase of his career...
...going to miss the people, being immersed in the work of the schools,” he said. “[But] I’m looking forward to thinking about what I’ve learned over the last 40-plus years, the successes but also some of the mistakes that I’ve made, and make some kind of sense of that—that will be a good base for the work I will do at the Ed school...
...invigorating,” says Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “You lose credibility in a way if you’re not careful about how good a case you make—that’s an important variable that people miss.”QUALITY CONTROLEconomics Department Chair Alberto F. Alesina says Summers’ critical approach serves as an important check on the quality of tenure appointments.“We have been even more careful in what we brought up,” Alesina says...
...quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even as it remains ever elusive...