Word: braved
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...they happen still. And so if there is one true lesson that modern Europeans might take from the confused story of the Hungarian revolution 50 years ago it is this: happiness and prosperity, liberty and peace do not just happen. They are blessings that have devolved to us because brave men and women argued for them, fought for them, died for them. We do well to honor their memory...
Unlike most job-seekers on campus this fall, Lawrence H. Summers doesn’t have to brave the recruiting rush to find a gig on Wall Street. The former Harvard president is now a part-time managing director at New York-based D. E. Shaw Group. Summers, who will take on the new position in addition to his current role as the Eliot University professor, will focus his efforts on “various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities” at the hedge fund, the firm announced yesterday. Summers, a former secretary...
...Prestige” follows two promising apprentice magicians, the brooding yet brave Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and the suave yet safer Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), as they embark on rival careers...
...prayed for, one wasn't. The results showed that it didn't seem to make a difference. I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave. You know what we've done in this country? We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that...
...Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America,” criticizing the rightward turn of the Republican party and blaming “social fundamentalists” for marginalizing centrist voters. Whitman’s book was “very brave and an attempt to recenter her party,” said Harvard Law School Professor Jody Freeman. Whitman said yesterday that she anticipates the issues raised in her book to still be relevant come December. “The way we are conducting our political process in the country...