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...They probably looked to see who else is interested [in the positions] and decided, ‘You know, we have the best candidates right here’,” Doyle said...
...this underground life... although they don’t have a prescriptive path, they always know their way around, and this is a metaphor for people who choose the easy trajectory in life. Leah does not want to follow that path. She wants to do what she can do best, and that’s not easy...
When he entered Harvard, he had scored a two on the Calculus AP exam, failed a French placement test, and was unsure of the difference between derivative and partial derivative notation, but Steven Levitt ’89, author of New York Times best-seller Freakonomics, has come a long way from his undergraduate days...
...have no talent, you have no talent. If people like us are ever going to succeed in a profession, we have to find a topic that no body else in the world is willing to study, so you can be the best at it,” Levitt recalled his father telling...
...Battle of the Sexes” is not Ludacris’s best album, nor does it shed new light—or any light at all—on the battle of the sexes. When Ludacris focuses on innovative party songs and lighthearted wordplay he succeeds as a rapper, but when delving into real emotions, relationships, and meaningful discourse on male/female interactions and sex, he stumbles and ultimately falls, failing to produce work of the quality for which he is known...