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...artists: how different was the overrefined melancholy of Pontormo from the solid materiality of earlier Renaissance artists like Masaccio! Actually there's no basis for this, and one can enjoy the wonderful (if at times rather stressed out) elegance of Florentine mannerism without feeling that the artists' world was somehow falling apart...
...girly tantrum at the Loews Boston Common Theater when he couldn’t get in to a screening of the new Bond movie. Dershkowitz’s resemblance to the ticketless guy in those moronic Fandango commercials was noted by 60 percent of observers. His status as a somehow more threatening version of the Satanic leprechaun in the Leprechaun movies was noted...
...even when math and science departments have clear policies on cheating, academic dishonesty in these departments is somehow still harder to pinpoint. Often there really is only one way to solve a math or physics problem, and professors are unable to prove cheating when students have duplicate answers. But this was not true in the case of Jennie C. Lin ’03. When Lin was a first-year, someone in an organic chemistry course copied her work during a midterm. Her creatively incorrect answers immediately gave the cheater away. Lin recounts the story of the professor calling...
...first time she cheated on a (now) ex-boyfriend. “I’d been having this miserable semester and this guy down the hall from me just kept flirting with me. He was like my fucking forbidden fruit. I knew I needed a release and somehow I felt like I just had to do this. It was something I needed for myself—and my sanity...
Brandt didn’t attend Harvard, and her national book tour never brought her within these Ivy-covered gates. But somehow the description she gives of the cheater seems to hit particularly close to home. Many of us were brought up to believe that we were special. At Harvard, this sensibility infuses much of what we do and causes many of us to think that our hard work should reap substantial rewards. When cheaters among us whisper about their indiscretions, their stories usually fit within this framework...