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Golf at Harvard is one of those sports "you have to do on your own," and besides forcing Greis to push herself into peak form, it also forced her to exploit all available opportunities herself. For Greis, that is what Harvard is all about. "I see college a little differently...
Curriculum changes, program reforms, changes in emphasis and style are all aimed toward the same goal. And, certainly, President Bok's report was not the first or the most important stimulus toward the attainment of that goal. Instead, the Bok report merely lent an unusual and perhaps an uncomfortable volume...
I assume (hope) that Attanasio was satirizing American machismo, making the point that the obsession of his characters with guns and fucks and games was "why we are in Iran." I appreciate the critique--if it is a critique, and not just an intellectual musing. The way in which he...
Terry is demonically possessed by an internal critic, bears not a monkey but John Simon on his back, constantly rasping, "Trite, trite, done already." His phobia for the commonplace, his obsession with originality, keep him not only from writing but even from talking or living without wondering whether it's...
Finding out how good you are is almost an obsession with Billy Cleary. On or off the ice, the closest he has to a credo is this: go all out.