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...truest form of self-sacrificing heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust, but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World...
Instead of dumping her, M.I.T. might want to consider giving Jones an honorary degree. We're coming up on the season when universities hand out these things with abandon, often to people who never saw the inside of a classroom at this, or sometimes at any, university. These folks get honorary degrees because they gave the university a million or two from piles so large you can't even see the dent. Then she could go to the university health services and get another piece of paper stating that the résumé fib was the result of stress...
...truest form of self-sacrificing heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what to do. Librescu became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because of his heroism...
...Outside of the classroom, Christian beliefs can also be called into question...
...taskmaster: “His seriousness is something I’ve taken with me. He was someone who truly did believe in the greatness of great art.”THE BEATLES AS ROSETTA STONEMuch of Adams’s musical education came from outside the classroom, he says.“I didn’t go to a lot of classes,” he says, although he graduated magna cum laude.He filled his time with listening to popular records of the day, he says.“I learned harmony by listening to the Beatles...