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...gathering, Quad Day made noise during reading period. Unlike the later gathering of black students, however, the white students at Quad Day had done so on a weekday, had reportedly engaged in illegal public drinking, and had muddied a significant portion of the lawn while playing “slip-and-slide.” In a dramatic indication of the double standard at play, Quad Day and the damage to the lawn were reportedly photographed and celebrated on a Facebook profile of the very student who later initiated the email complaints about the BMF and ABHA gathering...
...fails, Harvard could see millions—perhaps billions—of dollars in potential licensing revenues slip between its fingertips...
...something will indeed always be gaining on you—in particular, that disturbing sense of having youth slip away, which will only grow stronger as the years progress...
...speech last year, I can’t help but feel that, on June 7th, the sound of Bill Gates' voice will represent “the sound of the train of fun coming to a halt.” We won’t be able to slip-and-slide on the Quad, play paintball on a Tuesday, or visit a brewery in the middle of the week. Unless you want be that kid that keeps coming back after graduation to pretend as though it never ended, the lifestyle of a college student becomes instantly harder to justify after...
...What she failed to mention, or perhaps appreciate, is that the company let its most valuable commodity slip away. Last December, Teresa Earnhardt told the Wall Street Journal that her stepson had to make a choice between being a driver or a public personality. What that statement illustrated was not so much Earnhardt's conundrum but her own failure to recognize that his celebrity was, is and will be the driving force behind the lucrative sponsorship deals and broad-based fan support that fuel the business. In a time when even well-heeled shops like Roush Racing are looking...