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...shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life.”Friends posting farewell messages on Cosby’s Facebook profile page paid tribute to the amateur basketball player as a strong presence in their social circle who always had a smile on his face.Lucas R. Toffoli ’09, a resident of Mather House, first met Cosby in kindergarten. The two quickly bonded during recess, and by second grade, they could often be seen running around the King Open School playground...
...rare capacity” for larger insights into overarching themes. “Not just big insights but grasp of truths that have legs,” Allison added in his e-mailed statement. “Among political scientists, or indeed, all social scientists today, he had no peer competitor.” Before retiring in 2007, Huntington served twice as chair of the government department and directed Harvard’s Center for International Affairs from 1978 to 1989. But Huntington’s work also took him beyond academia. In 1968, he advised then-Vice President Hubert...
...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society—Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle, since he could not pay the membership fee. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54, who nominated Updike to the Signet, said that he convinced the Signet to waive Updike’s fees after telling them that if they did not allow him in, they would regret it for the rest of their lives...
...rutted in issues that didn't affect the lives of most people. They were important moral and symbolic issues, to be sure. And they were difficult issues, although their subtleties were obscured by extremists, who tended to dominate the debate. Still, the people directly affected by the so-called social issues - abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences - pale in comparison with the tens of millions who have lost their jobs and fortunes in the past year and with the global, life-and-death impact of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consequently, social issues weren't decisive in the elections...
...point is, there are civilized compromises to be made - not always, but often - on even the toughest social issues. We are beset by wars and economic distress, and we no longer have the luxury of ceding these discussions to demagogues and fundraising interest groups. It's time to move...