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...long ago I stood before a friend's window in Dunster House, gazing at the view of Leverett Towers and said, "God, I hate this place." My friend murmured her assent, but I think it occurred to both of us at that moment that to make such a claim was really beside the point. For whether we like Harvard or not has, on the whole, clearly been a secondary concern to the institution. Unfortunately, it's taken me the better part of three years here to make that realization. Looking back to my first year, I don't think anybody...
...always remember the bittersweetness of this college, that so many people could gather in one place to do such interesting things and yet not enjoy each other more. I would have liked that day, in spite of Leverett Towers, to have looked out that Dunster window and said to my friend, "God, I love this place...
...where the country had been. The fall of the Soviet Union came so rapidly that surprise and relief blotted out analysis. Could anything come to pieces so fast if it had not been essentially hollow? Had we been scaring ourselves with bogeys? The evidence is very strong that the "window of vulnerability" that Reagan armed us against was as false an alarm as the missile gap in Kennedy's day and the bomber gap in Eisenhower's. Had we outspent not only our enemy but also ourselves in battle with a phantom, becoming a debtor nation to accomplish a victory...
...helped found and was once chairman of the group, a collection of centrist Democrats whose views the President-elect has often echoed. The council's thoughts -- and those of its think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute -- will be presented to Clinton later this week, and may offer the best window into understanding how he will proceed from here...
...intend for this to be window dressing," said Nathans in an interview yesterday. "I expect they will take an active role and not simply meet and talk...