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...take a lot of credit for it. My parents did a fantastic job. The way my father described it to me as a kid, being on television is a career choice. It's a way of working, and you want to do that with integrity, but everybody works. I think that his common sense wore off on me a little...
Every once in a while, somebody asks me if I would be in something. But at a certain point my wife said, "We're raising four kids. If you're not pursuing acting as a career, please don't take jobs as a kind of lark. If you have a couple extra weeks, give them to us." I thought that was a really fair request...
...plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that transformation can be envisioned in, and in some cases attributed to, the lengthy and remarkable political career of the graduate in question, now-Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’56, who was awarded an honorary degree at a special convocation on Monday. At the ceremony Kennedy entered a select group thus distinguished by Harvard University, joining George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Nelson Mandela in the honor...
...President-elect Barack Obama's choice for United Nations ambassador has much in common with another boundary-breaking, African-American, Stanford-affiliated, female foreign policy expert with the same surname. But the similarities with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice end there. Susan Rice brings to the U.N. job a career devotion to African affairs and eight years of experience in the Clinton administration...
...very strong,” Fucito says. “He’s always in the right place at the right time, and that’s an important natural gift that he has.”Perhaps the most important goal of Akpan’s career came in the first round of the tournament. In the 103rd minute, Akpan scored the double-overtime winner to beat the University of Massachusetts 1-0 and send the team through to the second round.His ability both to score goals and set them up helped Akpan break the Crimson?...