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...friendship Paul Fay forged with John F. Kennedy began during a touch-football game in 1942 at the PT Boat School in Melville, R.I. Fay, a California native who died Sept. 23 at 91, had just enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was tossing the pigskin with a few classmates when a skinny junior officer named Jack asked if he could play...
...John Hughes moments...
...pursue while waiting for the LHC to be up and running. “There are certainly students that have had their careers substantially delayed by this—it’s a real worry for them and I’m extremely sympathetic,” said John Huth, a professor of physics and a member of the Harvard team associated with the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. “Everybody is just chewing their nails about it, but they’re the ones who are most strongly affected...
...that he wasn't. But that word humbled is an interesting one to think about. Humility is a virtue - except when it isn't. We think of it as one of the attributes that make up a certain quiet acceptance of one's lot, even saintliness - think of Pope John XXIII. At the same time, what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else to exclaim, "Oh! But you are!" - is one of the most annoying of all character traits. Uriah Heep, the creeping...
...award, it will be because he was the opposite of humble: because he braved the enmity of some of his supporters by dedicating himself to peace between Israel and Palestine; because he backed his words against nuclear-weapons proliferation with action to stop it; because he reminded Americans, with John Donne, that no man is an island and that poverty, despair and hunger anywhere diminish and indeed threaten those who are not poor, not hopeless and not hungry. Humility is fine, in the quiet of Obama's room, with his family, in private. But not in his public life...