Word: successful
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...likely that the job offers I might receive as a Harvard graduate will have starting salaries well over the combined income of my mother and father, who together supported a family of five. From this perspective, Thernstrom's argument appears to be legitimate: in terms of economic and educational success, the prospects for the rest of my life look a lot brighter than what they could have been just a generation...
While America should rightly applaud itself for the advancements in opening educational and economic opportunities to blacks, the ominous cloud of racism does loom overhead. You can be the wealthiest, most highly educated, most successful black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call...
...Coalition, which campaigned for the return of California table grapes to the Harvard dining halls. Through a virtually single-handed effort, Kovacevich convinced 54 percent of Harvard students to support the return of table grapes despite an ad hominem and platitudinous misinformation campaign by several activist groups. As his success seemed more likely, Kovacevich became Harvard's equivalent of "The Great Satan" among activists...
...with the Book of Job. And maybe Harvard students are among the least likely persons on the planet to accept explanations involving deities of any sort. Yet RSI remains extremely disquieting, not only because it affects so many of us, but because it seems specifically designed to stunt our success. Of course, afflictions appropriate for Harvard students could have come in many forms. Harvard might have been plagued by Discussion Muteness Syndrome, in which long periods of babbling without frequent breaks would leave seminar jocks with stunted tongues, prevented from speaking in sentences more than a few words long...
...Asian Pacific American (APA) community congregates this weekend at "Living Out Loud: the New Voice of Asian America," the 9th annual Harvard intercollegiate conference of its kind, I find myself considering what it means for Asian Americans to "live loudly" or to live in silence. The myth of our success as the model minority, has led to a misrepresentation of Asian Americans in the mainstream American imagination. These distortions come at great material and political costs...