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...couldn't afford to help. Lee's father is vice chairman of a major Hong Kong conglomerate; her family is rich. Lee, now 36 and the managing director of a printing company, remembers crying about the injustice of it all. But today, she recognizes that she gleaned a valuable lesson from the incident: money does not necessarily grow on family trees. "[My dad] instilled strict financial discipline on us when we were young," she says. "It taught me that it's good to plan and save, and that no one's going to come save you if you screw...
...defense and consistency to our game,” Pusar says. “When we play well, as we saw in the Michigan game, we can beat anybody. But you have to bring your A game every time out.”The Crimson hopes it learned a lesson from last year’s disappointing season. With seven talented freshmen joining the other seven skilled upperclassmen on the team, Harvard is ready to not only get its first road win in over a year, but also to establish itself within the Ivy League as one of the teams...
...children were captivated, and he was a natural,” Packrone said. “At then end of the year, the one lesson the kids really remembered was the one about executives. They also remembered that Bill Purcell, the former mayor of Nashville, had taught the class...
...point, our aluminum-clad heroes rush down from above and land heavy blows on the role players—the dork playing the knight, for example, gets smashed with a hammer made from a five-liter keg can. But Red Fang hasn’t learned the very valuable lesson that the “Revenge of the Nerds” movies have taught us. And thus, their victory beer is cut short by the Dungeon and Dragons kids’ gory retaliation that recalls a certain scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
...apparent absurdity of the law, there is actually a good reason for putting stormwater control financing in the highest law of the state: It was already in the constitution to begin with. This effectively meant that any change in stormwater control financing policy required a constitutional amendment. Obviously, the lesson to take away from this is not to insert inane, arbitrary provisions into a state’s constitution. Inane, arbitrary provisions like Constitutional Amendment 1, making English Missouri’s official government language, which passed on Tuesday with 86.3 percent of the vote. Sigh...