Word: taught
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Harvard asked me, and many of us, these questions for the next four years and guided us in the quest for answers. It taught me to draw meaning from the randomness in the world within me as well as from the complexities in the world without. Harvard showed us that we could be whoever and whatever we wanted to be. Here, all the different and often contradictory dimensions of my heritage existed peacefully with each other, with my current aspirations and even with my dreams for the future...
...this vast sea of talent and energy, I found not one but countless niches in which I felt a sense of belonging. Some of us tried to change Harvard, and most of us were inevitably changed by it. Harvard taught many of us to understand what really matters in our lives. Some of us were guided in the pursuit of lifelong passions, and others saw our carefully-crafted plans repeatedly fall apart and reassemble into something completely new after a single lecture. More often, a late night conversation or a new extracurricular endeavor showed us opportunities we never knew existed...
...maturing into one of the most sensible, morally informed and insightful observers of our national life, a true public intellectual," says Harvey G. Cox Jr., Thomas professor of divinity, who taught Dionne while in college. "I'm glad that I had a little something to do with his early formation...
...time when the country seemed in the midst of a revolution, Samuel Beer's class on revolutions taught us what it meant for a society to be turned upside-down--and what worked to turn it back right-side-up again on a just foundation. In Henry Aaron's class on the 1930s, we read James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and John Dos Passos' U.S.A. and studied the parallels to another time of great unrest, protest and poverty, when people believed they could change the social conditions of America...
Until you published your cover story on Bipin Shah, I always thought that TIME was a responsible, reputable periodical. Your report, which was so detrimental to my family, to me, to Ellen Dever [Shah's divorced wife], to would-be protective parents and to abused children everywhere, taught me that you are not reputable or even truthful. My second husband, Johnny, was a good-hearted and loving man. Despite what Steve Lopez wrongfully implied in his article, I have never spoken in disparaging terms of Johnny. He was suicidal when I met him. He took his own life because...