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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turow acknowledges this criticism, but disagrees. Sort of. "A lot of my classmates think I did exaggerate the grade competitiveness. My own response is that I think there's poetic truth in One L"--not bad, for a book Turow himself deems too flat and stereotyped to call a novel. "People claim not be as conscious of grades, not to feel those pressures. My own sense is that I really got to the genie of Harvard Law School. The genius. The germ...
Nevertheless, it's at long last almost sort of baseball season, and if the sound of gurgling sewers and the aromatic smell of Harvard Yard doesn't tell you that, then brother, validate your visa cause you're in the wrong country...
...legal and is over. But we do not have to go along with what he has done (or not done) and try to say, for optimism's sake, that it was good. Instead, we can expose him as what he is--a political animal of the worst sort, one who knows how to appeal to people's emotions rather than to their senses, one whose actions indicate only a desire for self-perpetuation, a follower elected to a position of leadership...
...Since the original report on General Education first appeared, America's role in the world has changed from one of detachment to one of interdependence and permanent involvement. Harvard students are almost certain to spend a portion of their lives working, living and traveling abroad, or engaged in some sort of active endeavor involving other societies and cultures...
...students voiced opposition to a clause in a rough draft of the constitution to provide special seats in the assembly for representatives from campus minority organizations, the minority organizations mobilized to neutralize this anti-affirmative action sentiment. The convention members first reacted to this flurry of activity with a sort of pleasant amazement that the convention had finally provoked a response from the students, even a somewhat negative response. Having nearly 90 students show up for a convention meeting--most of which in the past had barely managed to keep a quorum--was, at Harvard, an accomplishment in itself...