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Chase’s passion for cooking even overshadowed her senior thesis, “Chaos as a Form of Theory.” She remembers her formidable stack of thesis research “paled in comparison” to the even more impressive pile of Gourmet magazines lying nearby in her room...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
When my dad used to pile us into our Plymouth station wagon, he always reminded us to enjoy the drive and not fret about when we'd get to Yellowstone. Back then it was easier to enjoy the drive, though. The reels on the gas pumps turned almost as slowly as the date wheel on my father's Timex. There were so few other drivers on the highway that my brother and I could wave to all of them. As for oil, we assumed it all came from Texas, gushing up black into a clear blue sky while...
...cuts to solve economic problems, and with the projection of military power, directly or via proxies, as the means of taking the fight to the Soviet Union, which he famously proclaimed an "Evil Empire" with which there could be no accommodation. He ran up massive deficits in order to pile on the pressure by spending billions of dollars on new weapons systems with which the Soviets struggled to keep up. There was, at the same time, plenty of statesmanlike accommodation, particularly in seizing the opportunities represented by the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist leadership to reduce tensions and negotiate...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...