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...freshman advising system at Harvard has come a long way. Freshmen today have an academic advisor to help with course selection, a proctor to mediate roommate squabbles, and a peer advising fellow to mentor them in undergraduate life. But most upperclassmen would agree that there are certain things they wish someone had told them their freshman year: How to navigate through the new, exciting, and confusing world of college hook-ups. So freshmen, before you get your panties in a twist, or lose them altogether, take a look at FM’s guide for avoiding awkward sexual encounters...
...afternoon. “This is the strangest election that I’ve ever seen,” Castellanos said, citing the unprecedented media scrutiny and sharp turns that have marked both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call for change a “secular religion.” But the greatest factor in Obama’s favor, Castellanos said...
...from a Miami bellhop. Taking a job with Kellogg’s in 1975, he rose to the top of the company as CEO in 1999. In 2005, he was appointed to George W. Bush’s cabinet. The secretary’s visit to the IOP gave fellow Cuban-Americans an opportunity to speak with not only a government official but a fellow countryman about the continuing American embargo against Cuba and stringent regulation of travel between the two countries. “How can we show the Cuban people there’s a different...
...apply to be a MacArthur Fellow. Since the program's inception, its selection process has gone largely unchanged: an anonymous, unpaid nominating squad offers a list of candidates (now numbering as many as 800), which the foundation's staff whittles down to 100 or so nominees. A selection committee - a dozen or so anonymous individuals, who generally serve three-year terms - then spends "the better part of a year" devouring the nominees' work, before submitting a list of suggested recipients to the foundation's board...
...there is a trait linking the members of this brainy pantheon, it may be optimism. "I don't think I've ever met a fellow who's cynical," Fanton says. "I'm struck by what good, humble people they are." He notes that some fellows (like physician Paul Farmer, 1993) have donated their winnings, while others have shared it with colleagues. History is littered with intellectual giants - think Nietzsche or Van Gogh - whose minds buckled under the weight of their thoughts. But Fanton says the vast majority of MacArthur Fellows are sunny and energetic, propelled by the belief that they...