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...these respects, Harvard undergraduates are ideal. They usually have real knowledge and passion. They want to engage, if one will only let them. They are not afraid to ask questions, to risk interpretations, to read poems aloud and to listen. So my finest experiences since 1991 teaching (briefly) lyric poetry to first-year students at Harvard have been whipped cream on top of chocolate cake. For those who wonder whether education is alive and well, or who question whether the future will be in good hands, I exhort them to come, to watch and to listen to our students...
...next day, SAS held a separate vigil, as more than 150 gathered on the steps of Memorial Church to hold candles and listen to speakers describe the experiences of those affected by the renewed violence...
...those who participated in the discussion say the ongoing conflict made it difficult to reach any sort of consensus, despite the willingness of the sides to listen to each other. "There wasn't some blindingly clear light where we said, 'Oh, God, we've all been so wrong,'" Perl-Rosenthal says...
White House spokesperson Jake Siewert says of Rubin, “He would listen to everyone and ask lower-level people for advice. That came out of the environment at Goldman Sachs, where everyone has equal responsibility for trading...
Being a stranger to rejection, I rationalized, justified and poo-poohed to anyone who would listen. “Crimson Key discriminates.” “You can’t be a prefect unless you’re friends with people on the steering committee.” “I’m not pretentious enough for the Signet. I don’t own any smoking jackets or sweater vests.” But the more I seethed, carped and whined, the more that gnawing, paralyzing tightness began to sink into my stomach...