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...said sure, and they said, "What?" and turned around and walked the other way. Because it was all just bravado. Which was fine, because I didn't care. It was very interesting; it was kind of an interesting lesson in gender dynamics, on sort of a vast scale. It was interesting to watch different kinds of guys you would not have expected to behave terribly, behave terribly. Guys you would have expected to behave terribly, behaving like wonderful people, who had some different weird life situations. That was what was cool about it overall for me. It was eye-opening...
...team’s too young for that. From our standpoint, I don’t build any game up.” Just three weeks ago, Harvard entered its reading period break in a funk. It had lost convincingly to Dartmouth, a team of vast experience and superior efficiency on both sides of the ball. It had opened its season 4-10 and suffered an eight-game losing streak,?its longest stretch of futility in more than twenty years. And it had entrusted its season to a company of talented but inconsistent rookies. In the absence of regular competition...
...paid not in dollars but in experiences.Many of the most enriching summer internships––those with publications like Atlantic Monthly or with nonprofits like the Council on Foreign Relations––are unpaid. While Harvard does offer a vast number of grants and other forms of support for students pursuing unpaid but valuable summer activities, these grants are almost uniformly intended to help students support themselves during the summer and do nothing to offset the summer earnings expectation. Students on financial aid will still emerge $2,000 in debt, even after a full...
Barring a dramatic reversal of current trends, our generation will witness the departure of Europe from a consequential role in world affairs. This is an event of vast historical importance that should not be understated. Europe, although it has given the world its fair share of evil, has given the world the principles of democracy, human rights, and international law, the building blocks of any political system that does not denigrate man’s dignity. While many in America are content to smirk at Europe’s failures, or take some measure of pleasure in its impending collapse...
...decisions of European kings, statesmen, premiers, generals, admirals, and revolutionaries. Even the Cold War, which saw America’s rise as a true superpower, hinged in great part on the actions of Europeans, and, moreover, its primary focus was central Europe, where Soviets and Americans alike stationed vast numbers of troops and war material...