Word: fame
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...name and the fame got Hendricks to come on an official visit in late November of 1999. He arrived the Sunday after Harvard-Yale, and it was a balmy 75 degrees. Despite the comparatively poor facilities and the general sluggishness of the campus—typical of post-Game recovery—Hendricks was impressed...
...like music, a lot of different types of music. I went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame show not that long ago, and Talking Heads came back together. I ran out and bought their albums...
...Keep in mind that if you go to Harvard you will not actually be at the center of the world and are not guaranteed a life of pleasure and fame,” he said. “God blesses people who don’t think they’re great just because their college was born before George Washington...
...Harvard to gripe about its bad press is a bit like a celebrity complaining about paparazzi stalkers. It is an institution that willfully courts prominence and enjoys financial benefits and competition for faculty members and students, partially on the basis of its fame...
...here’s the most telling bit: Dwyer does not even consider himself a hero. According to his mother, Maureen Dwyer, he feels somewhat uncomfortable with his instant fame. After the publication of Zinn’s photograph, he called home to tell her that what he had done was no different than what his fellow soldiers were doing every day. As his mom put it, Dwyer said that he “was not a hero. He said everybody else over there is doing the same thing and he really feels bad” being singled...