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Affirmative Action Admissions
If you’re interested in what’s happening at Harvard these days (as everyone in Cambridge is) I suggest you read Hua Hsu’s recent article, ‘School Colors: The Fight About Who Gets into the Ivy League,’ in The New Yorker, October 15, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmative Action, Harvard, Hua Hsu, Michael Wang, MIT, Williams
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Glazed Tile Madeleine
Marcel Proust took one of the most famous bites in the world, gnashing into a delectable madeleine, and thus triggered Remembrances of Things Past. Last night I experienced a similar deja vu, though, being an architect rather than a foodie, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, United States
Tagged Harvard, Marcel Proust, Memorial Chapel, Nicolas Kristof, Remembrances of Things Past, tile, tile floor
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Tata Hall
Harvard Business School occupies a majestic bend on the Boston side of the Charles River. McKim Mead and White designed the original Georgian campus in the 1920’s, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmstead. The twelve buildings organized around courtyards … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Thompson, Boston, CBT, Charles River, Harvard, Harvard Business School, HBS, Machada Silvetti, McKim Mead & White, SBRA, Tata Hall, Wiliam Rawn
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Larry Summers is Nearsighted
The third in a series of posts inspired by What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel. When Larry Summers was the President of Harvard, one day he opened Morning Prayer at Memorial Chapel with … Continue reading