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Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal. People know me. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany...
...trying to think, ‘What could I do based on my experience and who I know to give to the student community?’” Emerson says. “I came up with this idea—’Conversations with Kirkland’—which would bring in distinguished and accomplished people from politics, arts, the media, and business for students to have truly an informal conversation...
...that is right.’” Emerson recalls. “He paused and said, ‘Let me think about it,’ and I rode with him over to the Kennedy Library and in the car he said, ‘You know, that student is right. I need to change my mind...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “By all means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.” (from “The Devil Wears Prada?...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...