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...little book sold 84,000 copies, caused a huge stir and made Keynes an instant celebrity. But its real import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...
Harvard used to have a sports requirement in freshman year. This was sort of a good idea, although most students, like me, thought it was a bore and a bother. The problem was that these classes aimed to teach sports--i.e., games--to people who would never play them again...
...Harvard used to have a sports requirement in freshman year. This was sort of a good idea, although most students, like me, thought it was a bore and a bother. The problem was that these classes aimed to teach sports--i.e., games--to people who would never play them again...
...that sort of Delphic distance; they usually play the outfield. Ancient ones (Odysseus) performed deeds of strength and cunning; medieval ones (Robin Hood) were honorable and loyal; modern heroes (Martin Luther King Jr.) triumphed in conflict. DiMaggio was all three, with two elements added: he knew that his heroism bore a public responsibility; thus his famous answer to the question of why he continued to play hurt: "Because there might be someone who hasn't seen me play...
...time I spent becoming acquainted with British author Jeanette Winterson in her new short story collection The World and Other Places was worthwhile. The conversation wasn't bad. She didn't bore. And every so often her genius came through and startled...