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...certified the British aristocracy for lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students’ ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...
...League is justifiably proud of its athletes. The vast majority of Ivy athletes are serious students who graduate and attend graduate schools at the same rate as their non-athletic peers and who earn more money in the workplace. But the Ivy League’s pride in having higher principles and greater integrity than any other Division I athletic conference is unwarranted. As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting process uglier than...
...Without succumbing to defensiveness or pride, I think a lot has been said here in the interests of defending my son that is more nuanced than you might have heard. My children have seen hard, hard things. A violent father, racism, rejection, their identity questioned - French-born children of this nation made to feel like they don't belong. Djamila, my oldest daughter, had her head cut open as a child when her father threw a glass at her. Later, she was thrown out of a teenage party she'd been invited to by a father who said Arabs weren...
...Opal Mehta, just a high school senior, lives her life on this stairway. Pushed by immigrant parents for whom Harvard admission is a matter of family pride, Opal has spent her life following a series of multi-step plans, each with its own abbreviation (“How Opal Will Get Into Harvard,” HOWGIH, is replaced by “How Opal Will Get a Life,” HOWGAL) and all of them with one destination: Harvard...
...They should enjoy the peace, because there may be chaos come Monday. An activist group has laid extensive plans for "hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender families" to show up at the six-hour Egg Roll. The National Park Service gives out free tickets, and the Family Pride Coalition, a 25-year-old group that formerly was the Gay Fathers Coalition and now calls itself "dedicated to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) parents and their families," has marshaled volunteers to try to scoop up as many tickets as they can, five at a time. "We want...