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...nation where blacks were shut out of decent schooling for generations, the SAT ran straight into the complications of race. The second half of Lemann's book is largely the story of how the arguments for affirmative action collided with the presumptions of the meritocracy. What to do? Abandon the idea of an elite created by the universities, says Lemann, though he doesn't altogether define what should take its place. All the same, he's right when he describes the predicament of the ETS: "an institution in charge of individual opportunity" in a country where opportunity is "the thing...
...Vowed to abandon the library filled weekends of yore and jump onto the Latin-loving bandwagon-learn to live la vida loca with tango lessons. Tango By Moonlight, hosted by the Tango Society of Boston takes place once a month on the Weeks Memorial Footbridge across from Dunster and Leverett House. Nearing the end of their third season this alternative society will offer one more twisting and twirling extravaganza (Saturday October 23rd from...
...decided we'd have to abandon ship. Five minutes before we did, we heard over the radio that the Coast Guard had somebody on the way. We launched our life raft at about 8 in the morning in 55-ft. seas with 60-knot winds. It wasn't the easiest thing to do. Five men were able to get into it, and we tied it to the tug with a pair of lines. We wanted to pass things from the boat--flares and stuff--to the raft, and then climb in ourselves. But one rope broke, and then the other...
...rebellion is. But his wicked renovations are little more than the contents of a stodgy suburban milestone, the mid-life crisis. Lester's voice-overs insist that it is so much more: the rediscovery of beauty in the world, of accessible pleasures. Still, he really does little more than abandon his adult responsibilities and regress to teenage indulgences. Lester's raging at the dying of the light might be a little more poignant if it meant more than rediscovering psychedelia and getting into a coed's pants. Furthermore, Angela (played by the svelte and perceptive Mena Suvari) is nearly...
This is not to say we should abandon House community altogether. Rather, we need to abandon the misconception that social circles--large or small--necessarily lead to fragmentation. The challenge, rather, is to bridge these groups within each House by infusing a common respect for one other and a genuine love for the House and its traditions...