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...quarter: a fair catch at the 12 for Berry on the punt, but on the first play Matt Luft fumbles after the completion and the ball goes out of bounds at the 4. The Crimson will face 2nd-and-18 from...
...made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” Clearly, while the American public loves wealth, we love self-made wealth even more. Gladwell divides his treatise into two sections, one on opportunity, exposing how so many success stories rely on catching chance breaks, and the other on legacy, which traces the cultural and familial influences that shape successful individuals. The opportunity section is by far the more compelling of the two. The most interesting of these environmental theories of success is the “Matthew Effect...
...Though they have some contact with the outside world through traders on the river, they speak a very inaccessible, tonal language, and apparently haven’t changed much since the first European explorers encountered them well over two centuries ago. They live on a day-by-day basis, catching only what food they need and leaving little behind by way of art, jewelry, possessions, or material goods. Nevertheless, Everett describes them as both “firmly committed to the pragmatic concept of utility” and some of the happiest people he has ever known—unsettlingly...
...quarter: a fair catch at the 12 for Berry on the punt, but on the first play Matt Luft fumbles after the completion and the ball goes out of bounds at the 4. The Crimson will face 2nd-and-18 from...
...through/within/without,” Martin also tried to process the mainstream media’s flood of images of conflict. “Because of the rate at which the media produces images, it’s amazing how unable we are to catch up with and challenge it. But those images compose our perception of the trauma of those conflicts.” Sculpting in clay with photographs of war in front of him, he tried to extract all the emotion from the images and manifest...