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...club is just a shade older than the 14th amendment. The first thing we visit is the wood-paneled Grill Room, an area that could pass for Harvard's thirteenth dining hall. That is, except for the welcome absence of keycard swiping and trays. "And the food is better," Ms. Simpson hastens to mention...
...Ms. Simpson is reading my mind when she says, "The club feels very different from the rest of New York...you can sit and read the newspaper...and you don't feel like you're taking up someone else's table in a coffee shop." The place has been meticulously designed to feel like a luxurious embellishment of Harvard, and it works: I have the bizarre urge to plop myself down in one of the comfortable chairs and read Moby Dick from cover to cover...
...something not quite right as we make our way from the club bar to the barber shop to the floor of conference rooms: A staggeringly high percentage of the clientele are white men over thirty-five--80 percent is a very conservative estimate. And sure enough, without my prodding, Ms. Simpson acknowledges the imbalance. She reminds me that I've come after the peak lunch hour, and so those still in the club are mainly retirees, a group which is inevitably going to be dominated by Harvard's old guard...
...accommodate the increasing proportion of women members, a shift which is expected to continue. And so, on a delayed schedule and a bit more quietly, the Harvard Club in 1998 seems to be dealing with the same sorts of hiccups and dislocations that swept through Harvard 25 years ago. Ms. Simpson seems to confirm that the new Harvard is making its presence felt when we work our way into a discussion of the club's scholarship program and its nascent community service organization "Crimson Impact"--two things you wouldn't expect from an organization with a "bootblack" and a masseuse...
...face flushed...Clinton said, "I want to say one thing to the American people...I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." --Patriot Ledger...