Word: brenner
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...Daniel Brenner '85-'86, who spent a year teaching math in a private school, takes a philosophical approach to time off. "You may not come back a buddha or anything, but you come back more confident about school and why you're doing it," says the native New Yorker. "Coming back to Harvard was my decision, and that made being in college more of an active than a passive thing...
...Brenner calls his year off crucial for psychological advancement. "There's something inherent in the nature of school, in just what school is, that is antithetical to personal growth. The deadlines are set and you abide by them; you take vacations when they are given to you; you know what you are taught for the final exam," he explains...
...during a leave of absence there's a shift to understanding that you're not doing it for them. Academia becomes more your own, less theirs. The University becomes your own. It's no longer just Harvard because you are an active member," says Brenner...
Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...
Princeton scored its lone run in the third, when Ken Brenner walked, advanced on a hit and a sacrifice, and scored on a fielder's choice...