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Newspapers are not missing the blog boat. They are running for it like the last train out of Paris. They hold their breath and look the other way as their most precious rules and standards get trampled in the rush, and figure they'll worry about that later...
...else, it’s clear that the offseason has created an intense desire to return to the field.“You work out 365 days either practicing or training for only ten games,” Murphy said, adding that “those games are really precious.”“I could see that up at the Columbia scrimmage,” he said. “Guys were just so excited to play. Part of it is you get so familiar with yourself that you tend to plateau at how much...
Golden’s goal is to illustrate the iniquities of legacy preference and development admission. He argues, convincingly, that some of the spots in our Harvard class are for sale—at a precious price. But, inadvertently, he also shows that legacy preference contributes to Harvard’s largess—and, hence, to our own well-being. Step into a class taught by Sandel or Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and you too are a beneficiary...
...understand what goes into making great music, you can't help but worship the miracle that is the combination of all those influences. It's an incredibly precious and delicate thing, and it has to be preserved...
...Harvard graduate, able to rattle off the names of African heads of state as quickly as she runs through the proof that the trisection of an angle is inconstructible. Yeah, that’s right, the hypothetical math concentrator is a female—eat that, Larry Summers.For those precious few among us who value beauty and youth, professor Caroline Elkins and her course, Historical Study A-21 “Africa and Africans,” offer a satisfying dose of both. Students describe the Pulitzer-prize-possessing professor as funny, provocative, and opinionated. The dynamic lecturer who teaches...