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...first game of the double dip, Read stepped to the plate with one on and one out in the bottom of the third inning. After a few pitches had gone by, she unloaded on the next ball that came her way and deposited the fluorescent green sphere behind the leftfield wall for career home...
...four years now, I have shared my thoughts with the Harvard population. I think, sometimes, that it would have been easier to say nothing. And, of course, it would have been. For the private sphere is a great deal more comfortable than the public, and J. S. Mill never promised believers in his disputatious Nirvana a free ride...
...have spoken of obligations and allegiance without mentioning benefits, for they are plenty--even if they come at an enormous cost. One reward for entering the public sphere is being able to set the agenda. When you feel strongly about an issue, whether it be the grape boycott, a multicultural student center or the park in Quincy Square, you can get people concerned about it and possibly hitch a caravan to your lead...
...closing, I would like to thank those who have paid attention to my columns these past few years. I have, for the most part, enjoyed the dialogue in which we have engaged. I did not have to enter the Harvard public sphere, but like the deans in University Hall and the better politicians on the Undergraduate Council, I believed that our spirits could be lifted and our lives improved through engagement...
...convinced my phone interviewer that social studies is the study of how Weber, Foucault and Habermas have contributed to theories of market share and advertising. I talked about the relationship of the Budweiser frog to the bourgeois public sphere. I said that Coke is a well-marketed product...