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...only product we have to sell is ourselves when we go on the job market. To this end, we must focus as completely as possible on our own work because the final product has just our name on it. The unintended result of such rigorous individual effort is a narrow focus on our own situation, with little time or energy left over for the common good. Why should I waste my time worrying about everyone else when it is so hard just to promote myself...
...United States has a moral obligation to help countries whose citizens are in such dire states of poverty and suffering; we should earmark a much larger portion of the federal budget for developmental assistance and direct aid. And our foreign aid should neither be distributed based on a narrow foreign policy agenda, nor should it be directed at corrupt regimes...
...like to make jokes, but seriously people, stop being so narrow-minded. Don’t buy into the stereotypes. If I have done nothing else to contribute to the cultural dialogue on campus, I only hope that folks at Harvard will think twice before they disrespect Middle America. When I graduate from Harvard, two messages will be my legacy: 1) the Midwest is a land of deserving of regard and 2) true cultural sensitivity means it is only acceptable to make fun of your own kind...
Holding a narrow lead over the Bears headed into the meet’s final day, Harvard had fallen behind Brown in the evening’s first race and needed to get back on track. With three Crimson swimmers and two Bears competing in the final eight, the race held the potential to shift the momentum back to Harvard or to strengthen Brown’s fledgling lead...
...been summoned there 80 times in the past two years, and residents of the neighborhood, a few blocks south of downtown, had nothing good to say about the rowdy closing-time crowds. So when 21 young African Americans were killed on Monday in a stampede down the club's narrow front stairwell and the city revealed it had ordered the club closed last summer for safety violations, many Chicagoans expected Jackson to unleash his formidable rhetoric against the club's owners...