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...remained in close contact with his students until December. A prolific author, he has three books being published in the next few months, according to his wife. “My father had two great loves: his scholarship and teaching. He was never really hard to get along with except when he was grading exams because he was upset about the students who hadn’t done well,” George von Mehren said. “When someone in one of his classes had an insight which he had never thought of,” he added...
...them was a software millionaire. That was sort of a glamorous thing, except that he was very weird. He was French, and he lived with his mother on the Upper East Side. It was this doorman, glamorous building. He basically proposed to me after four hours. He was desperate - he'd been in a little software cave, I think, for 12 years. He had not come out. And when he came out, he needed to get married quickly. We met in the Barnes & Noble line, and he was just gung ho. And a little crazy...
...dramatic construction of its own,” he claimed. “Perception is in the eye of the beholder, and people perceive me in a way that is not exact match for who I am....I am not the person that they experience in the films, except to the extent that...as an actor, I have experience and intelligence to draw upon.” Although his years in Hollywood may have toughened Ford to the pitfalls and traps of fame, the Chicago-born former carpenter still feels like his job is worthwhile...
...many kids at Harvard are doing many extracurriculars and balancing a thousand things and it’s not that much different except, with my extracurricular, I have to go to New York,” Remele said...
...once the hallmark of Western civilization is gone, replaced by fears of “cultural imperialism” and other such nonsense. Nationalism has been discredited, communism has failed, and religious faith has been publicly ridiculed down to the level of superstition or mental illness, leaving virtually nothing except self-indulgence as a philosophy or a worldview. This purposelessness is the primary cause of Europe’s malaise, and, given the way things have developed, it will be very hard, if not impossible, to combat...