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Jiang’s final label for the elite applicant or politician who performs incompatible identities for institutional reward.
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actor
Jiang’s final label for the elite applicant or politician who performs incompatible identities for institutional reward.
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"But what's interesting is Harvard wants that, okay? So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will..."
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"Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for,..."
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"...three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before Patroclus and cries like a girl,..."
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"...same, right? Because Patroclus cannot understand Achilles' mentality, okay? So the actor in Achilles is like, why are you crying, Patroclus? This is not..."
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"...the world, many, not all, but many, just want to marry actors like Brad Pitt. Billionaires like Elon Musk. Right? And three, two, and..."
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"...simple. What he would do is he would set up an actor, okay, this is an actor, okay, what we'll call a confederate. And..."
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"...a play. We all know the script, but we need an actor to play a certain character. And then we're like, you know what?..."
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"...the idea of game theory is to understand that all historical actors are motivated by their interests or worldview. And so. Are you looking..."
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"...watched all the time? Do you feel as though you're an actor on a stage? Do you sometimes feel you're compelled to act as..."
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"...who are working with his notes, as well as recollections from actors who participated in Shakespeare's plays. That's why... So we don't have actually..."
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"for his actors to memorize but as but but but the benefit of I make pentameter is that actually the speeches are pretty easy..."
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"...complete okay but some of his notes they also got the actors to basically write down what they remember okay they remember a lot..."
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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