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Although those Harvard men could not have known it at the time, their suggestions were crucial to the genesis of the mini-metropolis of mediocrity that has grown in southern Connecticut. Like its founder, Yale (the college) has always had delusions of grandeur; unfortunately, old Eli’s thirst for recognition in the face of a questionable pedigree is a vice Yalies have yet to kick...
...Rokaya, one of 44 survivors, floated at sea for 20 hours, clinging to flotsam and catching raindrops on her outstretched tongue to slake her thirst before a fishing boat rescued her. Some 370 others perished in the disaster, disappearing under the waves along with what had been their hope for a new life, a battered 19-m Sumatran fishing vessel they had been told would ferry them the 36 hours from Tanjungkarang in Sumatra to Australia's Christmas Island. Most of the refugees on this trip were Iraqis like Rokaya, but the passenger list was a roll call...
Second, Harvard just seems to have fun dishing out failure. Apparently, sending out 16,000 rejection letters is not enough to quench the thirst of this mighty, ego-sucking beast. It’s one thing to award a prize, but it is clearly another to dole out recognition solely for the pleasure of snatching it back from unsuspecting students who probably didn’t even know the award existed in the first place. Harvard should be condemned for laughing in the corner as students stood disappointed and sulking at their mailboxes...
...People feel all the more thirst for good comedy that can work in this moment. People look to excellent practitioners rather than the guy down the hall...
Only at Harvard would a mainstream political organization seek to distance itself from those who extol patriotism and a thirst for justice—let alone at a time when those values unite this nation in a way never seen in our lifetime (News, “Students Back Response” and “Student Rally for Patriotism Draws Few,” Sept...