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...names, on and off the training fields. The last names set a different tone. “Even outside [of ROTC], they kind of identify me on this same level playing field,” Waterman says. “It would be very rare for anyone to ever transcend that playing field into a romantic relationship.” But Waterman, who is dating another Harvard freshman, is still surprised by how thoroughly ROTC reconfigures interactions between men and women. During one weekend training exercise, Waterman expected that male and female cadets would be told to sleep in different...
...campuses” around the nation. These young citizens spend ten months away from home as part of small teams working together on service projects. During these months, they share meals, challenges, and extraordinary experiences with each other. In the process, profound bonds are forged that transcend class, race, and region, building a genuine sense of national community...
...think the problems of the College Board transcend this one incident,” Breimer said. “Because they are a monopoly, they have power in an unaccountable way...The SAT is the flagship test and it’s their way or the highway. If they make a mistake, no one can do anything about...
...office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning your expertise on movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...
...Each Tub On Its Own Bottom’ is a vivid, but limiting, metaphor for decision making at Harvard,” he wrote yesterday in his letter. “We will not escape its limits unless our Schools and Faculties increase their willingness to transcend parochial interests in support of broader university goals...