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North Korea’s Isang Yun Institute and South Korea’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation paid for Koh’s entire trip including the plane ticket, the room in a first-class hotel overlooking Pyongyang, the tours, and the nightly banquets...
...President, Franklin Roosevelt left the White House to pay his respects to 92-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The amiable Roosevelt and the dour Holmes chatted, and after F.D.R. left, Holmes supposedly remarked that the new President had a "second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." Many historians now believe that Holmes was talking about Teddy Roosevelt rather than Franklin, but the story is oft told because it suggests a larger truth: that the most important attribute of a President is not intellect but something both more familiar and less knowable--temperament...
...anecdote has fostered a mix-and-match parlor game. Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament. Reagan: second-rate mind, first-class temperament. Perhaps only Lincoln tops the class in both categories. But as we go down the homestretch in this presidential election, voters seem to be making up their minds as much by evaluating the dispositions of the candidates as their position papers. Voting for President is the most intimate vote we ever make; we're deciding whom we want in our living room for the next four years...
...Levy sent a letter to the Beth Israel community in late June announcing Fischer’s resignation and lauding his accomplishments during his time as Chief of Surgery. Levy wrote that Fischer, who received his M.D. from HMS in 1961, restored “first-class surgical care and education” at Beth Israel by reducing inefficiencies, revamping the operation rooms, and campaigning for error-free patient care...
...King George snippet comes under I for "I want to know" and not, say, K for King George) but it really doesn't matter where the book falls open - this is a work for dipping. Cricket lovers will be contentedly stroking chins over such arcana as the number of first-class appearances Bradman made before his first test (nine) or the highest number of consecutive test innings against England in which he did not score a century...