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...this is striking, that I have called Harvard my home. In the quiet reflections of this past semester, I have often been taken aback by this thought. After four years, I had forgotten the awe of that notion, one which affected me so deeply when I first arrived, that I could call this place my home. Certainly, Harvard is much more than an educational institution. It holds a significance for the entire world which is singular and awesome. And yet, for a few years, we all call...
...newly formed president's duty, as well as ours, to extend the history of American promise into another chapter of American greatness. Inaugural addresses are calls to arms in this titanic struggle and in his, George W. Bush declared that "in the quiet of American conscience we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise." He talked too of a need to agree that "children at risk are not at fault" and that prisons, now growing further than ever, are no substitute for hope and order for our souls...
Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen '82 remembers using intersession her senior year to "take advantage of a week of uninterrupted peace and quiet to work on my thesis." Pedersen wrote in an e-mail message that she borrowed the apartment of a friend who was going out of town for the week, and "became a hermit on Harvard Street for five or six days...
...cash stipend. Even if men make some early bad decisions, she argues, they will learn quickly, and wives will find them generous. (Try telling that to the naive women standing in divorce court or dealing with their dead husbands' debtors.) If your husband misses the right freeway exit, stay quiet, she counsels, even "if he keeps going in the wrong direction...past the state line." If he asks for your opinion on which shirt to wear or how to deal with the boss, you should smile serenely and say, "Whatever you think," because by "telling him what you think...
There are childhood traumas--and then there is what happened to Ellen van Bemmel in Renate Dorrestein's stunning novel A Heart of Stone (Viking; 244 pages; $23.95), translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans. In the early '70s, in a quiet suburb of Haarlem, Ellen's psychotic mother killed three of her five children, her husband and herself. Believing she was saving her loved ones from evil, Margreet van Bemmel fed them tranquilizers and put bags over their heads. Ellen and a young brother escaped by hiding in the cellar...