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...absence of aristocratic titles or estates, families are seldom blessed with status for more than a few generations. One group is always rising, while another is fading. Harvard and schools like it are at the epicenter of these social shifts. Such universities no longer educate the nation??s elite; now they make the nation??s elite...
...They are here to stay. Middle and working class students will never give the real reason why they can’t just jet set to London for the weekend because that might be admitting that, though we’re on our way to a place among the nation??s elite, we aren’t there...
...move brings Harvard’s administrative structure into line with many of the nation??s other powerhouse research universities, including Princeton, Columbia, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania. It is the most substantial addition to Harvard’s central administration since the position of provost was created...
Former President Bill Clinton told a crowd of Harvard professors and students on Friday that the nation??s next president must make it a priority to prevent national crises before they happen, and not simply respond after the fact...
...recent American history, there have been few conservative causes that required grassroots rallies, sit-ins, or fasting. Conservatives tend not to talk in terms of “revolutions.” In the sixties, while the hyper-liberal Students for Democratic Society were storming the halls of the nation??s universities, their right-wing counterparts were trying to get good old boys like Barry Goldwater elected. The reason for that sort of discrepancy is largely that conservative values tend to be associated with traditionalism, and most forms of conservative reform can occur easily within a governmental framework...