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...blood clot covering an entire side of his brain, just waiting to rupture, and he was rushed into surgery. Against medical predictions he survived, but the experience left him emotionally transformed. "Things that were so important-success, recognition, accolades-suddenly didn't matter anymore," he says. "And as a byproduct of my heightened awareness after the accident, I started listening to music-really listening to it. That's when I started appreciating songs like Five Hundred Miles. There are lots of songs that many people don't think about, but they are very good songs...
...repressive, sometimes brutal regime that stands against everything they profess to hold dear: democracy, human rights and freedom. They excuse this behavior with what he calls the "soothing scenario" that China will eventually come around to sharing their values, based on the assumption that democracy is a necessary byproduct of economic development. Mann calls this the "Starbucks fallacy," a reference to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's argument that when people have more choices of coffee than they do of leaders, political change is inevitable. But Mann sees a third way, a path between the advent of democracy...
...Don’t make it your goal. Make it a byproduct of your goal, which should be to do the best you can in each class and on every assignment, and to learn as much as you can in the process,” said Curtis K. Chan ’08, an anthropology concentrator and president of the Harvard Breakers, a street dance appreciation group. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...incorrectly attributed a quotation to Curtis K. Chan ’08. In fact, Ronald K. Anguas ’08, offering advice to those wishing to be inducted into the honors society, said “Don’t make it your goal. Make it a byproduct of your goal, which should be to do the best you can in each class and on every assignment, and to learn as much as you can in the process...
...nuclear strides would mean for their country's tense stand-off with the West. "I'm very sorry I forgot to congratulate you," a customer joked to the owner of a bookshop in central Tehran. "Where's my yellow cake?" replied the owner, punning on the term for a byproduct of refined uranium...