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About ten years ago, Chen decided to congratulate some of his favorite customers upon their graduation. At $14.99 a bottle, Chen’s gift of choice—Bouvet Signature Brut—wasn’t cheap. But although the money came directly from Chen’s own pocket, he let the bubbly flow freely. Four years ago, in fact, he had no qualms about giving away nearly 100 bottles...
...finding the friends that I have. To my nearest and dearest comrades, you know how you are, thank you for making these four years at Harvard so wonderful; thank you for being there for me whether I was laughing or crying; thank you for giving me the greatest gift of all, your friendship...
Each year the ritual repeats itself: A group of freshmen hire a stripper as a surprise birthday gift for a friend’s party, thinking it’ll be hilarious. But then the stripper—far older and more made-up than they had expected—arrives in a beat-up car with her driver, a 30-something with his arms folded across his chest. After he collects the cash, the clothes come off far too quickly, the naked lap dances and toy shows taking everyone by surprise...
Hands clasped on knees is not the standard position for most Harvard-Shamrock interactions. By student accounts, liaisons happen more frequently in freshman dorm rooms, where friends hire strippers as a gag gift...
Perhaps then it is more than a coincidence that the first brand-name whistle-blower was a woman. In Greek mythology, Cassandra had the gift of prophecy. She correctly predicted the outcome of many events, warning the Trojans, for example, in “The Aeneid,” against accepting a wooden horse as a “gift” from their Greek opponents. However, when Cassandra spurned the god Apollo as a lover, he retaliated by making anyone who heard her prophecies believe they were lies. It was mostly men who disbelieved her, leading inevitably to disaster...