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...mankind,” he said. Engleithner’s stories ranged from the harrowing—such as the time when he narrowly evaded what would have been a lethal injection of air into his heart after being taken to the camp infirmary—to the fortunate??such as when a mountain guide stalled the Nazis, who were about to find his getaway home in the Alps. The Center for European Studies sponsored the event in collaboration with Martin M. Wallner ’11, a native of Austria who spent two years in the Austrian...
...League with the Bush administration’s abhorrent foreign policy, Gladwell impugned Harvard, Princeton, and Yale as an “axis of evil.” His recommendation for dealing with these “fetishized institutions of elitism that stifle social mobility and hurt the less fortunate??? Abolish the Ivy League wholesale, and appropriate their financial assets to purchase his homeland of Canada...
...should it not? After the fleeting euphoria of Housing Day, freshmen will soon realize just how incomprehensible it is to cultivate a contrived “spirit” for a collection of structures—of red brick, if they are fortunate??that will only minimally impact their college life. Products of a completely randomized lottery, Harvard upperclassmen have little incentive to embrace the House into which they had been so haphazardly placed...
...fortunate enough to have reached that stage in life when my parents have begun to ask me for advice, and when the delusional security of my younger years has vanished. Okay, so maybe ‘fortunate?? is an overstatement. But despite the dramatic collapse of my safe childhood bastion, being summoned for advice has actually been liberating in some ways. And my mother, a recent divorcée, now actually listens to my supposed ‘analyses...
...simply walked through them. “I’ve never actually set out to get a specific role in politics, and that’s actually served me very well,” he says. “I’ve been extraordinarily lucky and fortunate??my experience has been that if you do a good job and you know people, eventually they’ll ask you do something and it may become something good...