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Insiders and outsiders. Those who run the University and those who seek to change it. The one group guards its power--though the personalities may change, the voice of authority retains its distinct ring. The others are a more diverse set, pressing concerns both personal and professional...
...ring on his finger, senior Greg Ubert couldn't explain what happened to the football team last fall. The magical 1987 Ivy championship season was followed by a miserable bottom-of-the-pack outing...
...pick and choose what remains of its meaning. Most Harvard students, when asked where we go to school, reply Boston first, then Cambridge if coaxed, and only under extreme pressure do we say Harvard. Upon graduation, are we going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston?" We are in a position to immerse ourselves in a network of fellow Harvard achievers or abnegate the experience entirely...
During the question and answer period, an audience member said Bush's assertions that he was building on the achievements of former President Ronald W. Reagan made Sununu's claims that Bush needed time to build new coalitions ring false...
Just so. In a single letter, Lawrence could ring all the changes between boasting and self-abnegation. To a confidante who had read an early version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence noted, "The story I have to tell is one of the most splendid ever given a man for writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...