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Few things say "forget I'm here" quite so eloquently as the pose of the shy--the averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard...
“Harvard has the resources and the motivation to create a community they want to be in,” says Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association. “They [can] create the atmosphere down there. It’s in their best interest...
The star scholars of elite nursery schools went through an admissions hell that makes the college process look easier than a Wellesley girl. These children, who beat odds not one, not two, but three whole percentage points worse than ours triumphed over a battery of tests, including behavioral observation, cognitive...
Early 20th century Europe was in a situation eerily similar to ours; free trade reigned, passports were not required for travel between states, and democracy and democratic rule were everywhere ascendant. Even traditionally conservative Germany was moving in a democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing...
What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding...