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...recent post on the well-known blog Gawker subjected Facebook’s often controversial roots to further scrutiny, when it reported an upcoming “tell-all” book that suggests the social networking site came about as a result of Mark E. Zuckerberg and other Facebook founders’ desire to get into final clubs and to “get laid...
...McLoughlin echoed these ideas, saying that students have approached him to tell him that they support the new policies. He also pointed to dissatisfaction revealed by the College’s senior surveys over the ways in which the UC spends its money...
...Mohammed didn’t exhibit the same urgency to just get the hell home. While we sat waiting for the police chief to come tell us why we had been re-arrested after having already been set free by the prosecutor, Mohammed deliberately put himself at risk again by offering a cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief...
...through the years ventured into the first person. I’ve shared personal predictions, opinions, and family anecdotes. At its best, this I-in-writing style may have touched or amused some readers; at its memorable worst, it regrettably hurt quite a few.Most times, though, better to just tell the story and not insist on being a part of it. The story about the softballer’s toughness, for instance, or the footballer’s heart or the baseballer’s thoughtfulness. All stories about members of the Class...
...revealing this complexity, educational institutions play a primary role. A university like Harvard, with its outstanding level of scholarship covering all parts of the globe, carries a responsibility to tell the full story, especially regarding Iraq, in whose future America has invested such a large stake...