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...answers to. And I've never been afraid to ask what might be a dumb question." This deceptively simple formula is the basis of King's great achievement as an interviewer: he approaches his job as an informed layman, intensely curious about virtually anyone who appears across his desk. He is obviously well read, a passionate sports buff and a sophisticated student of politics. Yet to an amazing degree he manages to set aside ego and loosen up guests with empathetic, probing but never baiting questions. "What I do best is create a sense of intimacy and comfort...
Last semester, I received two separate invitations to a special outreach night at the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF, pronounced “double-A CF”). When there are two printed invitations sitting on your desk with two personalized handwritten messages, it’s hard not to feel welcomed and valued (even if you don’t end up going...
EPILOGUE: On Sunday morning, remnants of college life lingered. On my desk: leftovers from late-night food. On my computer: a facebook message in which a boy I’d met that night had invited me to “celebrate senior spring the RIGHT way,” complete with phone number. On me: the shirt I’d gone...
...officials would like to frame this as the moral equivalent to walking into an apartment whose front door has been left open and rifling through papers left on a desk. But for people used to typing in strange web addresses all the time, it’s hard to see it that way. Instead, it seems to us that HBS had posted their admit list on a proverbial telephone pole somewhere in Cambridge, location undisclosed, and some curious applicants had gone out looking and stumbled upon it. Is such an action reprehensible? Is it worthy of automatic rejection...
...even count how many gunshots I heard, there were over 20 ... there were people screaming, and they made us get behind the desk." ASHLEY MORRISON, student at Minnesota's Red Lake Senior High School, where 15-year-old Jeff Weise killed 10 people and wounded 12 in the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since the 1999 Columbine killings...