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According to LexisNexis, the past seven days have seen Harvard cited in the headline, lead paragraph, or synopsis of 126 major newspaper stories. Yale was in 68. Princeton, a paltry...
Summers began the letter, in his third paragraph, with a thinly veiled reference to the “events during the first half of 2005,” when the Faculty voted that they lacked confidence in his leadership and Summers drew nationwide criticism for his remarks on the intrinsic aptitude of women in science. But he quickly pushed forward by identifying nine priorities that covered broad swaths of the University and seemingly left no issue, large or small, unmentioned...
...behemoth that is the Sunday Boston Globe lying nearby. I wasn’t going to turn down any opportunity to seem busy in the eyes of judgmental passing freshmen, and I found a piece on a common, yet intriguing, subject of the Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book...
...cream cheese, buffalo wings, and tempura shrimp. Stick it to “the Man,” Harvard, give him your money and let those breakfast eggs from your pre-paid meal plan harden away as you sleep the night off.I apologize if the sarcasm in the preceding paragraph upset anyone’s utopian visions about college life, so I’m happy to entertain the possibility that late nights are a necessity in the open and experimental academic atmosphere. Some might argue that only by challenging absolutely every social norm—especially bedtime and eating...
...Cooper, the old-school British surgeon; and Sachs himself, a New York native who was nearly crippled by polio in the 1940s. But, save a few revealing outbursts in group meetings, Miller has trouble getting any of the players to go off-message, quoting formal-sounding statements in multi-paragraph chunks. They escape from their interviews with their press armor intact...