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...acceptance last week is Michael Segal ’09, a biochemistry concentrator.“In the end, applying to 2+2 seemed like a fairly obvious decision because the program not only guarantees a spot at HBS and guarantees time to develop your own worldview,” Segal said, “but it allows you to find the best experience to have for two years. This program is a win-win on all accounts.” 2+2 also allows students to take an optional third year in the workforce before returning to Cambridge.As...
...cheery worldview, but it was honest. He ate meat but realized, in his essay "Consider the Lobster," that if a crustacean is trying to claw its way out of a pot of boiling water, you are cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic last year, he nihilistically stated an unpopular truth about liberty: The cost of freedom is that you have to occasionally let 3,000 people die in terrorist attacks. His 1999 collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - which John Krasinski has adapted into a movie...
...screen, it was much different; the real information, it seemed, was in the tone and manner of the exchange. (On the transcript, Palin's attempt at defining the Bush Doctrine was "His worldview." On the screen, it was "His worldview?" - with a hint of a challenge in it.) She injected "Charlie" into her answers constantly, as if trying to draw him in; he kept a distanced and almost curt manner, following up briskly and often. After a few follow-ups to his question on whether the U.S. had the right to invade Pakistan to pursue terrorist leaders, he asked bluntly...
...during which instructors and students discussed and argued a range of topics. To some degree, Obama's absence from those meetings isolated him from the highly opinionated scholars who were residents on campus, leading some to see it as an aloofness from a person with a too self-assured worldview. Richard Epstein, a Chicago professor and one of the nation's leading libertarians, sees a parallel with Obama's campaign style. When Obama grants audiences to adversaries, Epstein says, "he's got this wonderful manner, cocks his head forward, always asks good questions. You always feel you've been heard...
...during Palin’s tenure) “flashy” or “cosmopolitan” enough. There is no doubt that there are significant cultural differences among Americans today. Whether one grows up in Wasilla or New York certainly influences one’s worldview in meaningful ways. But when such concerns come to supercede all others—when a culture war trumps the Iraq war and Barack Obama’s preference for arugula becomes more important than his tax policy—then American politics sink to a level that makes waging real...