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...think there's a horrible thing going on now, where young players haven't been told by the right people that there's more to it than marketing themselves. They expend all the energy they should be using to find their voice, or work on their voice, or listen to themselves play...
...expend our resources trying to squeeze every last drop of privilege out of Harvard, we lose a chance to effect real change of a much more important sort. Like it or not, as Harvard students we have a certain amount of power. People listen when Harvard speaks, even if it doesn't have much to say. If we squander our energy working for ourselves, we lose this voice, a voice with the potential to help people in genuinely grave situations. The underprivileged of the Boston area, human rights abuses worldwide, the environment--these are all worthy pursuits for students seeking...
...work out?" she asks. "Should you not make the team, you have to believe that you are still a valuable person, that your friends will still love you and that your family will still be there for you. It takes that whole set of beliefs to enable you to expend all of the energy, time and emotion to try to reach that goal, knowing that it might--or might not--work...
...level of personal involvement had gone beyond what any manager could hope to expend. For example, administrators say he would get letters from people who would suggest changes--like moving the University to the Southwest where heating bills would be lower and respond with multi-page handwritten letters...
...care if NYNEX and Bell Atlantic want to merge, but at least they ought to have the decency to keep it to themselves. Even if I did care, of course, I wouldn't challenge the God-given right of American corporations to expend most of their energy breaking up and coming back together. This is, after all, the fabulous free-market dynamic that generates so much wealth for the executives involved, a process that must be taught in leading graduate schools of business as the Amoeba Principle...