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...Rubin did not fail—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the College...
...Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, at 11, with physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg as orator, and poet Carl Phillips. Sanders Theatre...
...Harvard is a place that rewards success, and during senior spring in particular, these awards proliferate. Suddenly it seems that everything can be divided into Summas, Phi Beta Kappas, Hoopes prizes, and prestigious fellowships. But this is not the entire Harvard experience. The Harvard experience entails understanding and experiencing failure. It is comprised of students rising from that failure, overcoming that fear, and excelling in spite of it. That environment—made up of students who experienced few failures before college and have been humbled by Harvard—makes this school the amazing place that...
...shortcomings of Project Sentinel failed to deter the determined Horowitz and team. They followed up the project with Megachannel Extra-Terrestrial Assay (META) in 1985, and then with Billion-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay (BETA...
...McClellan's book is another beta boost for the misery index. His memoir will feed the deep anxiety that the country has veered severely off the right track, that Washington is a cesspool of deception and hogwash, and that the federal government can't be trusted to do much of anything right. At a minimum, McClellan has not made it any easier for Republicans to maintain the balance of power in Washington. But the flap over his book is yet another reminder of how difficult the country will be to govern for whichever party wins in November...