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Every Harvard student is provided with copies of the CUE Guide and The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard--just another example of how students at Harvard are constantly spoon-fed opportunities to "maximize their potential." For overachievers, here's the next in the series: Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, a new instructional book written by Richard J. Light, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, based on interviews with Harvard students...
...left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard over the pile of bricks and mortar, "to make sure thieves don't take our things." There is no way any of her "things" could have survived; the building is so thoroughly destroyed I doubt a spoon is intact. But Varsha won't?or can't?give up hope. "We had a TV, a fridge... How will I know what's under there until they've removed the rubble?" she asks. She wishes the clearing crews would come quickly, with their cranes and bulldozers. But they are concentrating...
...silver-spoon patrol is getting a lot of attention. After all, if those with the most to lose are willing to suck it up and live with a stiff tax on their money at death--for the good of our economy and out of basic fairness, they say--shouldn't we all? Well, no. Trouble is, the superrich don't represent the wealthy--and there's a meaningful difference. What does Soros, with a net worth of $5 billion, care if the estate tax claims half his wealth? He's still got billions to spread around. This...
...thin, stretched skin under which veins throb with the shingles that have blinded her left eye and scarred that side of her face. At 39, she looks 70. The agonizing thrush, a kind of fungus, that paralyzed her throat has ebbed enough to enable her to swallow a spoon or two of warm gruel, but most of the nourishment flows away in constant diarrhea. She struggles to keep her hand from scratching restlessly at the scaly rash flushing her other cheek. She is not ashamed to proclaim her illness to the world. "It must be told," she says...
Gertrude begged her relatives to take her in, but when she revealed the name of her illness, they berated her. They made her the household drudge, telling her never to touch their food or their cooking pots. They gave her a bowl and a spoon strictly for her own use. After a few months, they threw...