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...held at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, was attended by the award recipients and high school girls, who could look to the awardees as role models. As Singer Mariah Carey began her performance before the packed concert hall, “all the girls in the upper balcony just started shrieking,” Faust said. “I looked at Amy [Gutmann] and said, ‘Good grief, this is not how we usually spend our time...
Harvard is a coaling station somewhere between Manhattan and its vast hinterland. Look around the dining hall this morning—you’ll see an absurd number of seniors in business suits hoping against hope that four years at Harvard is their golden ticket to the Upper East Side. Their stories are similar: born somewhere, achieved greatness, and had signing bonuses thrust upon them by Goldman, Sachs, Lehman, and other Jews. For them, quaint Cambridge has been either a brief respite from their childhood New York state of mind or else a warm-up for the World Series...
...have not yet declared their concentration choice, would not be good primary advisers if their expertise did not match the interests of their advisers. Yet the new system appears to be a qualified success. In particular, it provides readily available advising resources—resident tutors and knowledgeable upper-classmen—in a wide variety of fields to initiative-taking students. That’s not to say that the new sophomore system has been perfect at roll out. Nevertheless, it seems that it can be easily refined to correct its one major weakness—ensuring that undecided...
...one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this activism’s meddling morality...
...called menial workers who are capable of paying for cars, plunking down large initial premiums for insurance policies or making sizable down payments on homes or apartments - in cash. The banks of Chinatown centered in Canal Street in Manhattan have combined deposits of $6 billion, behind only the ritzy Upper East Side ($8 billion) among New York City neighborhoods. Chinatown residents say it would not be surprising that waiters and garment workers could afford to make political donations in the $1,000 range...