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...that Harvard students even know about us,” she says. “I was at a party with some Harvard guys, and when I said that I go to Lesley they said: ‘Where?’” The question is not uncommon to Lesley students. “Whenever we mention where we go to school, no one knows. Then you say that it’s right next to Harvard, and they say: ‘Oh,’” Wright continues...
...think one of the most interesting people, and he’s very easy to underestimate, is John Shalikashvili [former Secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]. He’s an uncommon man, a decent man, and he has a certain nobility. He’s surprisingly erudite. I think he was a man not a lot of people paid attention to and never had much of a public relations machinery, but I think he’s a very superior man; I like him. There are a lot of fascinating people there....but when you ask that who?...
This sort of high-stakes gambling among friends is not entirely uncommon outside of the clubs. One junior Pforzheimer resident plays under such circumstances in his weekly poker group. They would consider themselves friends—after all, half of them blocked together. “We’re all willing to float money back and forth,” he says. “We all buy in and let whoever pay it the next week. It’s more that people just don’t have money on them than people don?...
Although Wrinn said he could not confirm whether the subpoena was connected to the investigation, he did say it was the only one Harvard has received since the attacks, and that such requests are uncommon but were not unprecedented even before the attacks...
Borio says the recent attacks are an impetus for research on uncommon but deadly diseases...