Word: doneness
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...Larry Summers had done that, they would have boiled him in oil,” said former Tufts provost Sol Gittleman, who is not one of the letter’s authors...
...tournaments where he's at, I try to make a point of finding him - not bothering him, but to chat with him. There's no ego in Roger. The way he seems is the way he is, and I think that's unbelievable in someone who's done so much...
Downhill skiing? Downhill. I enjoyed it immensely, although I never became a great skier. When I was 50 years old I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier...
...many mountains were there? This was one of the great pleasures really: We were in an area where almost nobody had done any climbing and we made six first ascents of mountains over 20,000 feet. That sort of experience is very difficult to come by these days. There are still lots of mountains around, but all the big ones have been done. Reinhold Messner was the first to reach the summit of all the 8,000-meter peaks [a feat the Italian mountaineer completed...
...there was tremendous reaction. I can remember walking across the street and a London taxi stopped and the taxi driver - he was a tough-looking cookie - came out and said "You're Hillary, aren't you?" And I said "Yeah." And he said, "Congratulations. You know you've done a great job for us!" He got back in his cab and drove of. Now, the contrast was when we arrived back here in New Zealand. There was a big crowd - Mayor of Auckland and all the rest of it. I was put in this great big limousine to be driven...