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...movie is perhaps more powerful because of the chord it struck with its viewers from the South Asian diaspora...
...less than a month after Lewis’ letter, new Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby struck a distinctly different tone when addressing the incoming class of 2006. “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn,” he commanded. Last March, Lewis was summarily forced to step down by Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers. Subsequently, Summers has insisted that the removal of Lewis in no way reflected changed administrative priorities, moving away from a holistic conception of college life towards a more intense focus on academics. Does...
...just struck me as very preppy. She was very much a product of the kind of strict, New England attitude and approach which is very different from my own,” says Porter-Lipscomb, who is from the South...
...friends became embittered, questioning his forthcoming years in the workforce as an investment banker. “How long will I have to put future gain in front of my happiness?” he fretfully asked, probably more to himself more than to us. I was so struck that this accomplished academic, Phi Beta Kappa and soon-to-be graduate could be unhappy with his accomplishments. That his highly desirable i-banking job and six figure salary in one hand came with a denial of his true passions and grief in the other shook me as one un-pretty...
Editor-at-large Claudia Wallis traveled to New Haven, Conn., and New York City's Greenwich Village to meet Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle, two of a group of scientists she came to think of as the Obesity Warriors. "I was struck by how passionate they are," she recalls. "It reminds me of the scientists I met in the early days of the environmental movement...