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...social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, “Sardonic Verses,” returns for a fifth semester of irreverent commentary on higher education, and an outsider??s perspective on the daily news. All this, and more, on alternate Fridays...
Historically, politicians who deceptively promise to bypass the system or bridge the partisan divide disappoint. Actually governing as a Washington “outsider?? isn’t a successful strategy. Jimmy Carter’s presidency is a good example. When Bill and Hillary Clinton challenged the establishment early in his presidency, it only resulted in a reshuffling of the “system” in favor of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America (a mistake that the Clintons both learned from). Another president who liked to advertise himself as a Washington...
...years into her tenure, Keohane has not stopped trying to pin down the details of her job description. She has used her outsider??s perspective—she is the only Corporation member without a Harvard degree—and the tumultuous events of her tenure as an opportunity to parse Harvard’s system of governance—to learn its ins and outs, and how to best navigate it. In the process, say friends and colleagues, she has become a quiet leader of Harvard’s most powerful governing body...
High school, according to “Mean Girls”’s resident “outsider?? Janis Ian, is complicated. It takes an expert to navigate the dangerous terrain of the high school cafeteria, where everyone from the “Nerdy Asians” to the “Unfriendly Black Hotties” is neatly divided into categories. Unspoken divisions reign supreme. While this may be an accurate portrayal of the high school social scene, Harvard students like to think they have progressed past this type of self-segregation. But in reality...
...metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him as an ignorant outsider??this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed to shell out $200 million...