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...Queen has also subtly refurbished the most public aspect of her work - her interaction with ordinary people. She has never been naturally extroverted, perhaps a reaction to growing up so famous that as a child she had a territory named after her in Antarctica and was immortalized in Madame Tussaud's astride a pony. Her early friend and bridesmaid Pamela Hicks noted the unrelenting press of "intimate strangers" always peering in alongside motorcades. But over the years the Queen has learned to make encounters more enjoyable - and memorable. When she grants honors, she studies biographies of each recipient and writes...
...just an M.R.S. degree, but even in today’s society, it can be impossible to escape the view of a woman as a person who is supposed to submit to a man. I thought Harvard would be a more feminist-friendly place, but surprisingly, judging by the reaction to the new Women’s Center, I was wrong. Even women here are sometimes anti-feminist, which is strange...
...Pennypacker basement is the windowless home of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Company (WHRB), 95.3 FM. Apparently, college radio stations don’t perform photosynthesis. There must be some strange chemical reaction that allows them to survive—and even thrive—however isolated and sunless their location...
...share my experiences with so many people around the world,” Melvoin says, phoning in from Chile. He says that before setting out, most Americans were impressed that he was packing his bags for Cambridge, but the folks he’s met abroad have a different reaction. “If I mentioned it to the majority of the people I’ve met over the past eight months, I’d get a blank stare. They are far more impressed if I say a few phrases in their native language.” Melvoin?...
...Spats over registration are perhaps the least interesting element of homeschooling, which raises many of the most basic questions about the needs of children. Most people's gut reaction is that children simply must go to school. Perhaps parents can look after the three Rs, they say, but nothing beats school for preparing the child for life beyond home. There's probably some truth in that. Yet it's fair to ask why, as a society, we assume that a minimum of 10 years at school is appropriate for all children any more than a spell in the Army...