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...people we love. But it's also a good sign of psychosocial health if the day just saunters by and winks, and you feel no need to pay attention. The minute it feels like a duty, it has lost its purpose. "Love sought is good," Shakespeare observed, "but given unsought is better...
...tour guide for Unofficial Tours, Inc., the saavy Harvardian could earn $12 per hour. As a tour guide for the Crimson Key Society, students work for free. In exchange, though, they receive perks as valuable as unsought dating advice, marriage proposals, and international travel. Though the Crimson Key Society’s policy prohibits soliciting tips, that doesn’t prevent some fortunate Keysters from scoring cash, gifts, and the occasional experience of a lifetime. Perhaps the luckiest tour guide is Jason B. McCoy ’08. He gave a tour to a group from the SIAS University...
...Despite the difficulty of the process and the hard decisions she had to make, one of the defining elements of my roommate’s freshman year was her close and positive relationship with her dean. No one will check in on you or give unsought advice, but if you are willing to be active and vocal, Harvard can provide a wealth of resources to get you through the possible pitfalls of freshman year...
Excerpts from President Eisenhower’s farewell address begin and punctuate the film, but one excerpt from that speech serves as the film’s leitmotif: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist...
...take another example of extreme solicitousness: the fetish for coalition. We have been running around the world begging and borrowing Muslim allies so that we can claim that this is not a war against Islam. Why? We never declared war on Islam. This war, unsought, was declared against us by fanatics proclaiming jihad in the name of Islam. Why do we need borrowed legitimacy to fight back...