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...It’s a subject I usually don’t talk about. There’s not much to say about it. I was in Greece at the time, and I didn’t learn about it for two days. I was able to hide for a couple of days and get myself ready. I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary...
...laces self-tied), and if I were unfortunate enough to live in the Quad or have an athletic bone in my body, you can rest assured that I would be the proud owner of a two-wheel bike. I can stay afloat in a pool, and somehow I did learn to do a cartwheel. I even welcome my future of battling photocopy machines and printers with open arms (I make no promises regarding fax machines however—these remain a mystery...
...find their budgets stretched thin. Last year, Grinnell expanded its financial aid program, which covers about 90% of its students, to offer mostly grants instead of loans. That could give the school a competitive edge - as long as it can convince parents to get past the sticker shock and learn about the financial aid options that sometimes make elite private colleges even cheaper than state schools. Ditto for Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where a $700 million endowment and a budget designed ahead of time to accommodate a growing number of college students (this year marks the demographic peak) will...
...evening ended with an incongruous question plucked by Brokaw from thousands of online submissions: "What don't you know, and how will you learn it?" Obama took the mush as a signal to deliver his closing statement - a classic of the front-runner stall: when in doubt, praise the American Dream...
...Charlie Rose asking in 2007 what he is most disappointed about in his life: "I think I'm pretty self-critical, Charlie, and I think I could have worked harder at developing a greater discipline about the skills that I wanted to have. You know, I need to learn to write better...