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...money. We were in it for the love of English, or music, or the classics, or because environmental science and public policy was too challenging. As our practical classmates divided their time between resolving economics problem sets and drawing up plans for penthouses, we answered the distant call to contribute something of ourselves to the human race. We had callings! We were going to be composers, or performance artists, or teachers for America! Not that we objected to money on principle. It was just not something we expected to have much of, at least, not until...
...pitched into uniform as young men, returned home to build a society that for 30 years epitomized vigor and modernity. With a degree from Harvard, Oz went into journalism, first with the Journal of Commerce and then with TIME. In 1955 he was hired by Newsweek, then TIME's distant competitor, and rose rapidly up the editing ranks. In 1960 he worked with his friend Ben Bradlee - then Newsweek's Washington bureau chief, later the editor of the Washington Post - to persuade the Graham family, which owned the Post, to buy the newsmagazine. Oz became Newsweek's editor...
...collected 124 points and eight first-place votes. While Penn tallied the last first place vote, its 85 points was only good enough for fourth. Brown, who last won the Ivy title in 2005, finished third with 99 points. Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia rounded out the list with distant 58, 54, 47, and 21 points, respectively...
...America is like my distant uncle who doesn't remember my name but occasionally gives me pocket money.' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, Nigerian writer, on receiving a $500,000 "genius award" from the MacArthur Foundation...
...corrupt political regime through the eyes of multiple narrators. Where did this story come from? CD: I had a film idea to do a portrait of the South African president, Thabo Mbeki. He’s quite an enigmatic political figure, he’s seen as quite distant from the population, and I thought I might be distinct by doing portraits of three men who worked close to him in a non-political capacity. But I couldn’t afford my own camera, I had no way of getting in touch with the president of the country...