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Alexander T. Nguyen

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A Modest Proposal

The more things change, so goes a popular French proverb, the more they stay the same. Just ask Radcliffe College


Ordinary People

Deaths have explanations to fill the voids they leave. Suicides are different. The suicide of Chang H. Jo '00 before


Two Truths and a Lie

For my first column, we'll play two rounds of an ice-breaker called "Two truths and a lie." Spot the lie


It's a Consumer's World After All

Each semester, academic purists bewail the corrupted, materialistic attitude with which we Harvard students consume our education. In a world


Blame Harvard for Cold Hearts

R ecruiting seniors who enter consulting or investment-banking are often charged to have somehow entered a Faustian contract and sold


Equal Opportunity Fetishes

The rules of interracial dating are supposed to be like this: If white dates Asian, it's a "fetish." If white


Marketing Diversity

I n October, the Asian American Association organized a debate between student leaders on the legitimacy of ethnic groups at


Multicultural Student Center Needed

T o a large extent, much of the debate surrounding the multicultural student center since the late 1960s has been


Time Management 101

H ere's a free time-management course for all of you reading this from the Alexander T. Nguyen School of Efficiency