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Sheehan, an economics concentrator and another member of the Phi Beta Kappa Junior 24, wrote her senior thesis on rating agencies and their role in the sub-prime markets. In her spare time, Sheehan was president of the Seneca, a women’s non-profit organization; a Peer Advising Fellow; and a member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business during her freshman and sophomore years...
...humanities.) Yet while this is certainly preferable to hating your job, when taken to its logical conclusion, it destroys summer. And this seems somehow wrong.Indeed, the overbooked generation stands the risk of becoming the overwhelmed generation if this trend continues. We have grown up without a conception of spare time. Left to ourselves, we fidget and grow paranoid. It always seems that there is something we should be doing.Hence the birth of the productive-unproductive summer, the overbooked generation’s answer to relaxation. A typical productive-unproductive summer allows us to do something we enjoy because...
...creators insist that people actually enjoy the invitations. "It is something very positive," says Vikas Gupta, an Amazon.com alum who created both the popular Send Good Karma and Hug Me apps, and runs his start-up Jambool out of a spare bedroom in San Francisco's South of Market district. "It is a positive action that people like sending to their friends...
...Bardot's defense Tuesday was that her passionate denunciation of the ritual slaughter of Eid-al-Kabir had been misinterpreted as an attack on Islam in France. A similar defense had failed to spare her from conviction in four earlier trials. In 1997, for example, Bardot was first convicted on the charge of "inciting racial hatred" for her open letter to French daily Le Figaro, complaining of "foreign over-population", mostly by Muslim families...
...among all these physical comforts (which I suppose my tuition pays for), that luck and its consequences can seem very difficult to justify. We grow accustomed to seeing the same unfortunate people in the Square: the same sleeping bags outside the Coop at night, the same cajoling man selling Spare Change News outside Au Bon Pain, the same lady on the benches in front of Bank of America. Familiarity breeds blind comfort, and somewhere along the line, we begin to see our neighbors in the Square as the nameless homeless, instead of people much like ourselves. We cease at last...