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...confident in his ability to rise to the challenge that Newark represents. “He’s got excellent judgement,” Lasdon said. “He’s made to be a politician in the most honorable sense of the word.” —Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached adphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...example: “I’ve never looked through a keyhole without seeing someone looking back.” I interpret the message here to be about the importance of privacy. In my second year studying Japanese at Harvard, we learned that there is technically no word for privacy in Japanese; when the Japanese need to use the word “privacy”, they use the English derivative “pu-rai-ba-shi.” Until the twentieth century, there wasn’t even a word for the concept. From small Japanese...
...book’s themes is that digital information spreads so explosively that words, once spoken, cannot be retracted. To illustrate the principle, I used Google’s cached version of a Harvard web page. Shortly after his women-in-science speech, former University President Lawrence H. Summers posted a terse public statement on his official Web site. The statement stayed on the site for two days before being replaced, after public protest, with a more apologetic rewrite. A copy of the old statement remained available at Google (click the pale word “cached” below...
...nervous student and proud parent throng. Any surveyor of the Yard on commencement day would clearly realize that “throng” is a much more appropriate verb to describe the great masses crowding in for the historic ceremony. “Join” is a word more appropriate for the purchase of an online dating membership. When I graduate, I don’t want to merely “join” my classmates; with my brothers and sisters of Harvard and our proud faculty and parents, I want to “throng?...
...Modest about her influence, Spencer frequently lists the names of other Harvard officials when describing her own duties, the word “colleagues” peppering her language...