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Patrick’s personal story attests to his inspiring leadership potential. Born to a struggling single mother in one of Chicago’s most impoverished neighborhoods, Patrick overcame tremendously unfavorable odds to earn a scholarship to Milton Academy and a place at Harvard College and Harvard Law. In both the private and public sectors, he has fought to give other disadvantaged youths the opportunity to mirror his own rise to success...
...work feels most like that of his beloved Cezanne, something like the last word in modernism. He's often paired with Dreyer because of their shared taste for visual and narrative austerity and because of the book Transcendental Style in Film; Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, a seminal work of film scholarship by the screenwriter and director Paul Schrader...
Another idea is to have the struggle against misinformation take place in the world of academia, rather than the forum of public policy. Rather than giving the government the keys to censorship, we should drown misinformation in scholarship. Institutions geared towards enriched education should pave the way by sponsoring research into how people are being affected by the media, how the media might be manipulated to affect the people, and what people can do to be better aware of when this might be happening. This way, when we make the news, we can make it worthy...
...trip] was the most amazing experience I’ve ever had.” But it isn’t just Chinese academics who’ve been wowed by their tour guide. “I was given a business card and offered a scholarship to the University of Dubai,” writes Matthew S. Roller ’08 in an e-mail, “if I ever happened to be in the area.” And another tourist from the Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam bestowed a gift-wrapped plaque upon Keyster Maura...
...journey from the South Side of Chicago to the north shore of the Charles River, Patrick passed through Milton Academy, a suburban Boston prep school, which he attended on a scholarship from the organization A Better Chance...