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...Stevenson replied, “Thank you, but I need a majority to win.” Again, sadly, he was right—this time, twice over; he lost to Ike by a landslide, and, fifty years later, White House aspirants are still appealing, with success, to blinkered self-righteousness and total thoughtlessness.James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...most spoiled member of my family, I saw it as my prerogative—my duty even—to vocalize all displeasures and frustrations as often as possible. Take an easy coming-of-age task like swallowing a pill for example—this eluded my single-digit-self like rocket science...
...spite of these small road bumps, however, I have made some progress. You can often find me sporting Converse sneakers (laces self-tied), and if I were unfortunate enough to live in the Quad or have an athletic bone in my body, you can rest assured that I would be the proud owner of a two-wheel bike. I can stay afloat in a pool, and somehow I did learn to do a cartwheel. I even welcome my future of battling photocopy machines and printers with open arms (I make no promises regarding fax machines however—these remain...
...forgive the Chinese policies.” But looking ahead to this month’s meeting in Beijing, Gyari was cautiously hopeful. He projected that, for lack of any fundamental differences between the Tibetans and the Chinese, cooperation would eventually lead to a solution in which Tibet self-governance and a stable Chinese society go hand-in-hand. Gyari carefully distinguished self-governance from independence, a goal that the Dalai Lama’s ‘Middle-Way’ policy has never supported. Attendees included several members of the local Tibetan communities, some of whom questioned...
Another former PricewaterhouseCoopers colleague and friend, David Gerken, who last spoke to Rajaram 18 months ago, says Rajaram took his career and family very seriously and wanted to do right by them. Perhaps it was this self-induced pressure that proved to be too much, warping his perspective and making his final violent act seem justifiable. "The last time I spoke with him, he had been out of work for a while. He was concerned about how the situation was impacting his family but seemed to be taking things in stride," says Gerken. "There was no indication of how serious...