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...surest way to end up burned by reality is to churlishly refuse its existence. If students expect everything, the ultimate failure to receive it is a bitter disillusion—a disillusion which ought to have been expected, but no less bitter because of its predictability. In their rush to secure affirmation of their own aggrandized images of Harvard, the Class of 2012—like so many classes before them—seems have forgotten this reality. Only now, more than ever, this forgetting happens collectively, in real time and in a vast electronic echo chamber of delusion...
...your face did when all you could think of was your algebra teacher while masturbating into a sock. (And by ‘when’ I mean ‘Tuesday.’)” I can’t help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print. To be fair, the book is not entirely lacking in insight. Leitch’s essay about steroids is a particularly cogent meditation on sports’ most-discussed topic, if only because its thesis...
...forcefully opposed its neighbors' NATO ambitions, however resolutely they've been supported by U.S. President George Bush. "I have always told Vladimir Putin, my friend, that it's in his interest that there be democracies on her border, and that he doesn't need to fear NATO; he ought to welcome NATO because NATO is a group of nations dedicated to peace," said Bush in Bucharest. Britain, Canada and a number of other member states agreed with his analysis. But Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, whose relations have recently appeared strained, opposed MAP for Georgia and Ukraine. As the French...
...there are few premium spots for southerners on the political parties' parliamentary-candidate lists. True commitment to solving the problems of the "Mezzogiorno" - as Italy's eight southernmost regions are known - is clearly not considered a vote getter. Yet for reasons that transcend geography, turning around the south ought to be Italy's most pressing national priority. Youth unemployment in the Mezzogiorno is a staggering 36%; and between 1991 and 2005, according to one recent study, the Interior Ministry dissolved 154 local city councils in the area because of Mob infiltration. These conditions have caused a steady exodus...
...importance of the transfer program and the important role transfer students play in the Harvard community. As early as 1957, when housing concerns threatened the number of transfer students admitted, then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34 urged that “Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly.” Transfer students, then and now, are a significant demographic of highly motivated students and leaders that the College would be remiss to exclude. Space constraints have always been one of the most limiting factors in admissions, for both freshmen and transfer applicants...