Word: tragical
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Colleges need to make up their minds about what they want in a prospective student and be up front about it. Write it up and include it in the application materials. It might read rather like a personal ad: Top ten university seeks students with tragic, but not ugly backgrounds, Should wear scars valiantly. Persons not entirely recovered need not apply. Applicants should be deep but not desperate, experienced but not embarrassingly so. Should have stories to tell that will keep bored admissions officers awake without turning their stomachs...
...American Legion that he donate all royalties from his new autobiographical "confessions" of error in Vietnam to veterans' causes. "If Secretary McNamara is sincere about atoning for sending Americans into a war he knew they couldn't win, then he shouldn't profit financially from this sad, tragic, late confession," said William Detweiler, leader of the 3.1-million member veterans' group. McNamara's replied (through publisher Times Books) that he'd prefer to make any charitable contributions "privately...
...legacy of affirmative action in an historical context: "James Baldwin wrote that one of the tragedies of being Black in America is never knowing why you failed. The modern corollary, [ironically enough] is that with affirmative action, you never know why you succeeded." Although the latter is admittedly less tragic, we have created a culture in which "few Blacks are sufficiently confident of themselves or their achievements." In so doing, we have undermined one of the purposes of the program; although there now exists a cadre of Blacks in hitherto unattainable positions, they are haunted by the possibility that they...
Harvard's recent decision to rescind the admission of Gina Grant represents a tragic event not only for Grant, but also for Harvard and for the concept of a juvenile justice as an opportunity for a second chance. Grant, who rebuilt her life after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter of her mother at age 14, is a model case of how child offenders can become productive citizens if given a chance to start anew...
Despite the tragic helicopter crash which destroyed the Crimson boathouse this February, the team continues its business as usual from the MIT boathouse...