little ruefully. “At least that’s what I tell
myself.”
At the end of his third year in college,
Randolph decided to take the entrance
exam for law school. After graduating,
he took a job with a law firm in
Manhattan. Harvard cost the world a
physicist and gave the world another
lawyer. “I do tax law,” Randolph said.
“It’s funny. There are a fair number of
math and physics majors who end up in
tax law.”
1 I’ve changed her name and
identifying details.
2 This example is from the work of
the economist Mary Daly, who has