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...nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn??t ashamed to take steps to make life easier for myself...
...This is something that belongs to us,” he said of Gen Ed, “and it wasn??t something that was handed down as a piece of tradition...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn??t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...
...season for everything in life. I thoroughly enjoyed leading the University, especially the opportunities it provided for interaction with students and especially the opportunity it provided to try to do new things in new ways... At the same time when it was clear that it wasn??t going to be possible to innovate in strong ways, I became very comfortable with the judgment that it was much better for me to return to what’s been my primary professional passion of economic analysis and public policy...
...great that so many people were excited about ‘Sweeney Todd,’” Kline said. “It’s also kind of sad that that was the first time I’ve seen that theater so full and it wasn??t the first time I’ve seen work of that quality...