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...Reed College because he couldn’t pay tuition—are no less popular now than they were during Horatio Alger’s day. In a 2007 article titled “Rags to Riches Billionaires,” Forbes reported that “almost two-thirds of the world’s 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” Clearly, while the American public loves wealth, we love self-made wealth even more. Gladwell divides his treatise into two sections, one on opportunity...
...repeat of its tournament run in 2007 that ended with a trip to the Final Four.“They are a team that knows how to win,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said.The two teams come into tomorrow’s match-up looking almost identical in the formbook. Both the Crimson and the Minutemen enter the weekend on the back of a tough 1-0 loss that ended their respective hopes of a conference championship. However, both squads have also won eight of their last 10 games and were playing some of their best soccer over...
...Ridker said that there was a small increase in diabetes for patients given the statin in the study. But, he said, “almost all” of the diabetes occurred among patients with “impaired fasting glucose,” or those who were “already heading toward diabetes...
...there are barking dogs. So when you’re feeling down and out, just take a listen. I would seriously recommend this album, though for nothing other than a good laugh and a confidence boost. It’s so cheesy and awful that it’s almost good. Almost...
...time unifying and leading what is an extremely riven Socialist Party," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life in Paris. "The negative passions these two women generate sadly prove that hatred is not a vice associated exclusively with men. The [Socialists] will almost certainly pay dearly for that excess of emotion in the months and years to come, while Nicolas Sarkozy will be rejoicing over...