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We—Americans, that is, and especially we Harvard students—are taught from a young age to believe that no dream is impossible, and are encouraged to reach for the stars. But it takes only one magazine article to make me understand that rhetoric is patently false. I now know that the biggest American Dream is well beyond my reach...
...they were dark...; they were handsome - well, symbolically handsome. The world of comics was a form of visual shorthand, so that the average hero need not have been handsome in fact, so long as his face was held to the required arrangement of lines that readers had been taught to be the accepted sign of handsome: sharp, slanting eyebrows, thick at the ends, thinning out toward the nose, of which in three-quarter view there was hardly any - just a small V placed slightly above the mouth, casting the faintest nick of a shadow. One never saw a nose full...
...classes—which will be taught by experts including Harvard University Dining Services chefs, House building managers, and the “master technicians” from Fleet Management Services—will present the material in hands-on and seminar-style sessions, Fox said...
...reaction was “Pusey? Who’s he?” Bok was an insider, having been before his election in 1971 the very successful dean of the Law School. Rudenstine and Summers were both outsiders, although each had Harvard doctorates and had at some point taught in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The odds would suggest that now is the time for an insider, someone who knows the place and the players, and has a chance at winning hearts and minds as the University seeks to put distance between itself and the more unpleasant aspects...
...engaged in ferocious repression of Shi'a, Iraqis migrated throughout the area looking for work and safety. In this environment, migrants from the city of Hilla bought the land near Najaf and built a miniature community complete with bakery and infirmary. It also included a school where the sect taught its beliefs. The arrival of this new group raised few eyebrows. It's not unusual in rural areas of Iraq for extended families to buy property and then bring their more distant relatives to live in the area. Even as battle drew near sect members were waved through local checkpoints...