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...hasn’t taken Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” but Rachael A. Wagner ’04 seems to instinctively understand what it’s all about. She says two things about her recently-won Rhodes Scholarship: “It’s all relative. Maybe I happen to be good at things that these Rhodes people arbitrarily chose to value,” and “Not everything we do is completely our own doing.” Rawls might agree with Wagner on both points—and such...
...jaded senior, Wagner still speaks of Harvard as if she were a star-struck freshman. Wagner says that coming from a graduating class of 60 in Virginia, people told her that the days of “being the big fish in a little pond” were over. But, she says, “the great thing about a bigger pond is that you can see all the ways in which people are wonderful.” Wagner says that the kid she sees sleeping in class, for example, could be “starting a neo-post-modernist...
...Wagner herself has proved to be one of the big fish in the Harvard pond. Despite coming from a small high school in Virginia Beach, Va., Wagner has been on the varsity Alpine skiing team since sophomore year. “There have been instances in races when I thought, ‘I might die now,’” she says, covering her face with her hands...
When not performing potentially death-defying turns on the ski field, Wagner has run from executive meetings of the Harvard International Review and the International Relations Council to gatherings of the Seneca, the female social club she served on as real estate chair. Right now, however, Wagner finds herself “neck-deep in data,” for her thesis on how women of different socio-economic backgrounds balance the pressures of work and family. Wagner is particularly enthused about the opportunity to “study a group of people [I will] one day be a part...
...They look for people concerned with making the world a better place and who have a plan on how to do it,” Wagner said...