On: Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)

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Important context: Walter Kirn was born in 1962, and entered Princeton in 1979.

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It's funny, I realized when he mentioned Nassau Street that I "entered Princeton" at just about the same time he did. Only I was 9, and was only a resident of the town, not a student of the college. My memories are somewhat different than his :)

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I guess I wasn't reading it closely enough, because the first time I realized that was the mention of John Lennon's assassination.