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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
This is a fun article from Harvard Magazine describing the lives of Ivy League superachievers.
It reminds me of an older piece by David Brooks, “The Organization Kid.” That title, of
course, is a spoof of the 1950s sociological classic, Organization Man.
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