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Recruit This, McKinsey
Times are tough right now. But you New York management consultants and Wall Street investment bankers know that, and you’ve
Phunny Physics?
Last Friday night, as most students were invading New Haven to enjoy pre-Game festivities, one event on campus was still
Watch What We Say
When the Massachusetts Hall sit-in began, the living wage quickly became the dominant question of campus politics. But since the
Pointing Us Nowhere
One of the fringe benefits of being the president of a major university, one supposes, is that one no longer
Those Frightful Partisans
Somebody should tell the propaganda bosses of the left that Halloween is over; maybe they would stop trying to terrify
Indoctrinating, Not Educating
Two weeks ago, the students in Foreign Cultures 17, “Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East” watched a movie
The Crisis That Wasn't
Last Sunday night as I sat in my room typing the next installment of my column, thinking of how dull
Paved With Good Intentions
In war, what distinguishes the good guys from the bad? The bad guys take aim at the innocent and the
Next Stop Wonderland
Two excellent movies about fantastical little worlds that exist just below the surface of our reality will be playing simultaneously
What You Can Do For the World
Some historians speculate that the Cold War contributed to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. During the Cold War,
United We Remember
This past Sunday was the annual New York City Marathon. As helicopters flew overhead and police barricaded street corners, painful
Well Suited for the Job
It’s recruiting season and I too have found myself the possessor of magical slips of paper promising fame, fortune and
The New World Order
There’s been an awful lot of bad news recently. The war in Afghanistan isn’t going particularly well, the FBI has
The Harvard Syndrome
Last winter, I had dinner with my parents and two of my roommates at Legal Seafood in Kendall Square. During
The Silence That Kills
As a display of faithful dedication, the document is inspiring. It contains injunctions to pray continuously, exhortations to purify one’s
The Death of Debauchery
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts—The Winthrop House Masters, tutors and House Committee have canceled this year’s “Debauchery” party and replaced it with what
Reinventing Ourselves
One brisk morning several weeks ago, I trekked up Garden Street to the Registrar’s Office in order to glimpse the
Bringing Hate to Harvard
For those of you accustomed to seeing the term “ethnic cleansing” in articles about far-away places, this might come as
System Tainted by Download
The worst part about that random hook-up, the abiding regret which neither liquor nor denial can purge, is that while
Steal This Column!
Regular readers of my column (i.e. my parents and roommate) know that I’ve often written about the changes in the
Life's Best If Served With a Thin, Flaky Crust
Life is like a cherry pie. Or at least that’s what the over-stressed but blissfully happy writer Cathy Hanauer likened
Imagining Global Democracy
Every day I read the newspapers, hoping to learn something more about this war, this total war, this war against
The Vanishing Life of the Mind
Once upon a time the summer after senior year meant packing a Volkswagen and driving cross country with three of
On Listlessness
My friends have started making lists. Not the usual late-October variety: buy Thanksgiving ticket home, start attending Lit and Arts