Selectively Quoting from Freakonomics

I loved these lines from Freakonomics, don't ask me why :) it just reminds me of someplace I knew.

Upon completing his graduate work at the University of Chicago, Venkatesh was awarded a three-year stay at Harvard's Society of Fellows. ...

And yet he regularly left Cambridge, returning again and again to the crack gang in Chicago. The street level researh made Venkatesh something of an anomaly. Most of the other young Fellows were dyed-in-the-tweed intellectuals who like to pun in Greek.