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While the Math 55 students may marvel at their professor, they have attracted their own dedicated admirers in the freshman class. “Even though we have all this work,” Harrison says with pride, “when we’re in the War Room and all the Math 25 and 23 kids are down there, there has never been a time when people ask us for help and we say we’re too busy. We always help people...
Weld had JFK. Hollis had Emerson. Wigglesworth had Bill Gates. At a place like Harvard, history—and who was pre-gaming in your room 40 years ago—is definitely a point of pride. That’s a sentiment the tour guides of Unofficial Tours (UT), Inc. (unofficially known as Hahvahd Tours) trifled with this fall, when they mistakenly told visitors that roommates Al Gore ’69 and Tommy Lee Jones ’69 lived in Holworthy Hall instead of Mower Hall. In November, the blatant error finally caused Holworthy residents...
...characters of “Prodigal Summer” cannot escape the fact that, in some indefinable way, humans are not the same as other species. Kingsolver reveals that important things reside in the gap between what is human and what is wild: love, kinship, pride. Throughout the novel, each character confronts this gap, some with more success than others...
...Thank you for featuring former President Aquino in your list of heroes. It certainly is an honor for us Filipinos. We take pride in knowing that we have contributed in our own small way to democratic principles. Jose Manansala Cavite, the Philippines...
...These convulsions eventually break through the pair’s thick armor and allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper cling to their self-defense mechanisms, leery of betraying deficiencies they both have in spades...