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...have been that very devotion to duty that turned this possible inflation of an already impressive resume into a profound issue of honor. In a suicide note written to "the sailors" (he wrote another one to his wife and family), Boorda expressed fears that the controversy over his battle decorations would damage the institution to which he had devoted his life. (The suicide notes were misdated May 15; naval officials speculated that Boorda avoided dating them May 16 because that is his only daughter's birthday.) Those who knew Boorda could understand his chagrin. "Since a military officer...
...losing herself. She had reached adulthood as a fallen-away Catholic intellectual (the thoughts of such a person are the themes of her novels Final Payments and The Company of Women). But now, in middle age, she wonders--not with her father's anti-Semitism, but simply with profound confusion--whether she is, in fact, a fallen-away...
...made a profound impact on medical education at Harvard and in the country," Fineberg said. "He has always been very persistent and consistent in improving programs at the Medical School intellectually and in terms of research and the physical environment...
That search deepened when he went overseas in 1992 to cover South Africa's march to democracy. Taylor acquired, among other things, a bullet in his shoulder during a shoot-out near Soweto, as well as a profound sense of the gap between how democracy is viewed in a country that is enchanted by its promise and one that is disgusted by its processes. "Part of the reason we've built up a $5 trillion deficit over the past 15 years is that we don't trust our politicians," he says. "Therefore, our politicians don't have the political freedom...
...itself hard questions as to how the experience differs for students who have to hold down one or two term-time jobs," says Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96-'97, who is not on financial aid, but worked six hours a week doing dorm crew last year. "That difference is quite profound. They get less back overall from the university...