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...faced the fact that my original assessment was slightly naive. Going to Harvard doesn't make you better than anyone else, and it certainly doesn't make you part of a superior group of beings. Yet it would be foolish to dismiss the influence many of the people you meet here can have in your life. Not everyone can grow up with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Not everyone here will become the Matt Damon of marketing, or the Ben Affleck of corporate lawyers. But many of us here will fulfill the golden future that admissions saw would arrive...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, | Title: The Real Purpose of Harvard | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

When he isn't feeling superior to his surroundings, McCourt suffers brief spasms of unworthiness. There are his infected eyes, "like two pissholes in the snow," a phrase he likes so much that he repeats it many, many times. Another thoroughly used favorite is "not giving a fiddler's fart." Reading this book can push you to just that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frank's Ashes | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...only Presidents are favored here: the offspring of government heads are routinely elected as governors or designated as ministers. The dynastic preference may be due to brand-name mentality as well as political connections and debts to be collected. Sometimes we cannot rule out a certain merit derived from superior education: they were able to attend the best schools. We also have a saying: Mejor un mal conocido que un bien por conocer (Better a known evil than an unknown good). ALBERTO GIBBS San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

LeFave and her mother, convicted of three counts of child rape and four counts of indecent assault and battery, were released in 1995 by Middlesex Superior Court judge Robert Barton...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ogletree Takes Fells Acres Case | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Last year, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein reversed her conviction and ordered a new trial, saying that there was new evidence to suggest that the children's testimony in the original trial might have been tainted...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ogletree Takes Fells Acres Case | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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