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...There is certainly less tragedy and more of a sense of possibility at Harvard these days, and no one would disagree that things are easily much better. Yet the proliferation of internet sites among gay students, like boredatlamont.com and craigslist.org (search "Lamont" in their Boston personals section) does suggest a larger marginalization, a kind of failure to be integrated meaningfully into the larger community...
...Saturday, a white-haired man will enter Harvard Stadium and take his usual seat among the Crimson faithful in Section 37.Unlike those around him, John Norton will be watching The Game from the stands for the 62nd consecutive year.This year will mark the 123rd football game between Harvard and Yale, and Norton has been on hand for slightly more than half of them.It’s all part of a tremendous streak of 370 consecutive home games that Norton has attended at the Stadium, starting in 1943.Literally nothing can keep him away. “I went through...
...yeah,” they told the handler, “we’re going to need the dog for a special halftime finale.”They led the mascot in on-field circles by his hula-hoop leash before breaking for the Harvard student section, where they were received like royalty. A fan photo of the sprint to freedom later circulated, and Tim particularly loves how it “captures the Yale fans.“Most of them are still applauding wildly, with no idea of what’s going...
...Gets Left Outside the Gates,” published in September—focus on preferences given to wealthy white students. However, sandwiched between chapters on “A Break for Faculty Brats” and “The Legacy Establishment” lies a section that touches a nerve recently exposed by affirmative action cases at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Michigan: “The New Jews: Asian-Americans Need Not Apply.” Much like Jews were before the 1950s, Asian-Americans are “shortchanged relative to their...
...book closes with a quotation from Madison that the war had produced, “happiness and harmony in every section of our beloved country...