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...time, I have also been slightly shamed by instinctive fear of my countrymen from the South. The closest I had previously come to prolonged exposure to groups of southerners was spending time with my New Mexican relatives, who are mostly crazy, which I had thought was just a family trait. For example, one of my uncles once visited me in Cambridge and, when we were deciding where to go to dinner, announced that he would not eat “boogers and sticks.” He was referring to Asian food. I found Washington to be much further south...
Lewis truly does reply to all e-mail he receives—and though it is not his most apparent trait, he does have a sense of humor. Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekend magazine, reprinted an e-mail he sent to a Yale student last November in response to an inquiry titled “bitch ass harvard...
...same time, it is incorrect to say autistic people are cold and indifferent to those around them or, as conventional wisdom once had it, lack the high-level trait known as empathy. Last December, when Pam Barrett felt overwhelmed and dissolved into tears, it was Danny, the most deeply autistic of her children, who rushed to her side and rocked her back and forth in his arms...
...there anything to this idea? Perhaps. There is no question that many successful people--not just scientists and engineers but writers and lawyers as well--possess a suite of traits that seem to be, for lack of a better word, Aspergery. The ability to focus intensely and screen out other distractions, for example, is a geeky trait that can be extremely useful to computer programmers. On the other hand, concentration that is too intense--focusing on cracks in the pavement while a taxi is bearing down on you--is clearly, in Darwinian terms, maladaptive...
...status at Harvard was unique in that it stood outside the rigidly elite final club hierarchy. An 1953 article in the Pi Eta News explained, “The most striking trait of most clubs in our system is their exclusiveness, for, due to high expense and restrictive policies, many clubs only elect men from private schools. This obviously limits from the start the variety of personalities represented in each club. Within this restricted atmosphere Pi Eta is an exception. Our group is made up of almost every type of personality at Harvard—athletic, intellectual, well...