Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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O'Brien will offer a fresh perspective to the usually serious Class Day keynote speech. Instead of the tried-and-true politician giving a tailored version of their usual stump speech, O'Brien can offer witty insights into the fact that--gasp--there is real life outside the wrought iron...
That has Fed chief Alan Greenspan mildly concerned. When stocks fall, margined portfolios fall faster. What should make him lose sleep, though, is knowing that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the...
Several minutes into the performance, a person sitting three rows behind me yelled "fag" as a performer in a flamboyant peacock costume came on stage. My friend pressed my leg with her hand, knowing the anger that was welling up inside me. Other heckling eventually drowned out the offending comment...
As I sat in the Hasty Pudding theater last night, my anger at the comments being hurled past me and at the silence of the people around me, battled against a startling resurgence of the shame and fear that I often felt when in the closet. Part of me wanted...
What Harvard students will get out of the program is a realization that Ivy League degrees are as rare in this world as atlases in the George W. Bush household. Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple...