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...debate that is fundamental to an academic community. This exchange of ideas has become vital to me as a journalist, an author and a scholar. This brand of intellectual discourse and constant questioning is both so Harvard and so American. We cannot allow it to be taken away from us??that, truly, would be the triumph of evil...
...integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us??the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...Right before the ninth inning, I was thinking that we can’t let a solo homerun beat us??that’s pathetic,” Shakir said. “We need to win this one not just for ourselves, but for Crockett...
These angels lead me to the second difference between the two life transitions. After high school, many feel an overwhelming desire to reinvent themselves. Whether it is the degree of anonymity that college affords or the freedom of shedding off the labels that once defined us??valedictorian, snob, goody-goody, nerd—the ability to start with a clean slate is liberating. Freshman year is a veritable free-for-all, the time to be whoever we always wanted to be, whether socialite, jock, girlfriend or scholar...
...into it. I had developed a reputation for writing my ordinary scientific papers in this weirdly literary way, and I got away with it. So one day, out of the blue, the editor of Natural History called me up and said, hey, you want to write some columns for us??I didn’t even know they had columns—and I found out they even paid you for them. So I wrote three or four, and then I wrote 300, never missed a month...