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...rising senior who is worried sickabout college applications, I want to thank Nancy Gibbs and Nathan Thornburgh for downplaying the idea that we all need to get into the Ivies [Aug. 21]. As the eldest in my family--and Asian as well--I have always had the feeling that I need to get into a name-brand college. Although I have tried everything to make my parents believe that small liberal-arts colleges can be as good, they still won't budge. It was even harder to get my mom to read your story. The article helped relieve some...
...know this crowd - the brave, the mean, the selfish, the feckless, most of whom, when the crisis peaks, are capable of being whipped into an effective fighting force by a peerless leader, in this instance personified by Samuel L. Jackson's Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting a witness (Nathan Phillips) from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against a crime lord...
...legacies) and to the sons and daughters of big donors and celebrities. His book on that practice, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, will be published in September. He spoke with TIME's Nathan Thornburgh about the myth of college meritocracy...
...when in 1954 Board members complained to Conant’s successor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, that the Overseers had been marginalized in important governance decisions and appointments, Pusey responded that he would informally seek their advice in the future. But, as Morton and Phyllis Keller note in “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” “little appeared to change...
...most individuals diagnosed with the illness have a lifespan of three to five years. Kremer chose not to leave Harvard and refused to accept his fate passively after his diagnosis.“Avi instead made the extremely difficult and courageous choice of fighting back.” said Nathan M. Boaz, a close friend and classmate of Kremer.Along with 90 of his classmates and Janice H. Hammond, the Philips professor and senior associate dean, Kremer led a candy fundraiser for Valentine’s Day and hosted an online auction for ALS research last spring.Kremer and Boaz aimed...