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...athletics,” as there are few students there only for lab work or a role in the orchestra. My teammates have gone on to pursue careers in medicine, in law, in teaching, and yes, there are even a few in finance. And as an aside, I can tell you with the utmost certainty that we were far from “exalted” in the College community. It took me nearly four years in Cambridge to learn that every member of the Harvard community is there for a reason; whether some are more valid than others...
...graduate of RISD and Dartmouth and currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, the German-born Anna Schuleit decided to create art from state mental hospitals because of her own fascination with the history of psychiatry. “What happens to people in their society when other people tell them they’re not sane anymore?” asked Schuleit. “What does sanity mean any more? I’m drawn to that because it’s the very core of what makes us who we are.” Schuleit said...
...legacy applicants—more than three times its overall admissions rate. The federal Office for Civil Rights, in a 1990 review of Harvard’s admissions practices, found that legacy preferences allowed applicants with “weaker credentials” to gain acceptance to Harvard. Tell any Harvard student that you’re a beneficiary of legacy admissions and he’ll assume that you’re a polo-playing Porcellian Club member with gentleman?...
...economy and the corruption that was making it worse. "If I had known during the war that we would just be trading the Americans for the Russians," he said, "I'd have stuck with the Americans." When his secret life came up, he said, "I always tried to tell you the truth." I believed him. Indeed, I recall any number of times - especially during the period when Henry Kissinger was bare-knuckling South Vietnam into accepting his "peace-is-at-hand" terms - when An saved us from reporting things that weren't true...
...Nope, no, there wasn’t any problem. I just walked right in, it was fine. I don’t think we were conspicuous at all, or at least I hope not. I mean you can’t always tell if you’re conspicuous or not. We had to relocate a couple of times, because you know, the footsteps, you hear them, you quickly pull down the skirt?...