Word: school
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Even if you're not a student who treats their extra-curriculars or their school work like a job and even if you don't spend 70 hours a week at the Advocate, Phillips Brooks House or Cabot library, you're still an adult. Want proof? When you're in a book store, do you shop at the "young adult" section? When you sign an official document does your guardian have to sign it also? When you go away for the weekend, do you have to call your mother and tell her you got in safely? Are there name tags...
...Their lives are constantly regulated by their parents in the form of curfews and dress codes and scrutinized by their peers--ew, where did you like, dig up that outfit? Those who resent the authoritarian aspects of Harvard's administration would do well to remember the absolutism of high school regulations, which included uniforms, rules against public displays of affection, bans on beepers, requirements to use only transparent bookbags and educational requirements that make the core system seem like ultimate liberty...
...obstacles that bounce them in a meaningless direction. After shooting out of college at high speed you slam into a four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks, you fizzle out, lose steam, and drop into law school. There you bump into a nice guy, slide into marriage and emerge from law school with an infant child, student loans, the need to buy a house--so you become an analyst...
...military for politics that day, but he never really stopped fighting. McCain's political career, from Congress to the Senate to a presidential campaign, can seem like a seamless extension of his Navy background, even of his genetic code. "He came from his grandfather and father," says high school friend Malcolm Matheson. "Both of them were small men and tough and scrappy. This man can do no other than that." His campaigns were less about issues and ideas than about hard work and grit. For him, the political is personal. He didn't much care whether you were a Democrat...
...pieces and, oh yes, a book or two a year. (His latest: An Affair of State, a scathing account of President Bill Clinton's impeachment woes; and the less reader-friendly The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.) "Dick is sort of a legendary intellect," says law-school colleague Randal Picker. "He is one of the great legal minds of the 20th century...