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...spotlight hounds. The common warning frequently given to incoming Harvard students—about adjusting to being a small fish in a big pond—completely misses the crux of the transition. The problem, in reality, is more about crowding a lot of big fish into a small pond...
Favorite Winter Olympic sport: Figure skating, for sure. I’ll even abandon work to watch it because I wish I could look like that at Frog Pond...
...Chinese-American immigrant who went to M.I.T. to do his graduate work, had learned to skate with his school buddies on lakes in China. Later, when we lived in New York City, he bought me a pair of skates one Christmas. He took me to Central Park's sailboat pond, and that was my first time ever on the ice. I fell in love with it--the speed, the flow, and the wind in my face...
...early morning walk, the sun streaming through their obviously new (but with a vintage feel kind of new) outfits. Another has them adoring their newborn child in a field of calf-high wild grass. Dusty probably helped Jane through the very natural delivery of their child in the bathing pond just 12 paces behind their home. Swaddled in a hand-knit, teeny-tiny sweater thing, wilderness baby—they’ll probably name him Leaf—will play with deer and know how far to go downstream to catch the best trout...
...case against it. Eliminating economic inequality requires denying the sovereignty of property rights and eroding the freedom of individuals to dispose of their holdings as they see fit. We have every reason to worry about such limitations on personal freedom. Times were when colonials on this side of the pond felt so strongly that the Crown should keep its paws to itself that they fought a war over...