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...serious note, the hunger for nobility endangers everyday morality—because the latter is expected. What does it matter that you held the door open for a stranger? It’s not out of the ordinary. Or, at least, it wasn’t. Today, we act like the crucial tests come with the big things. Did you give up a lucrative job to help starving kids in Haiti? Did you take a stand against your government? Did you die in the line of duty? But the crucial tests come more often—in fact, they come...
...Like his ability to create team chemistry, Clark’s penchant for making influential game-time decisions stems from his love of soccer and dedication to studying...
...passage of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 represents the worst of our nation’s approaches to problem solving. Its reliance on specious standards of “reasonable suspicion” that seemed to entail nothing further than “looking” like an illegal immigrant remains unacceptable. More horrifying, perhaps, this bill will negatively affect the nation’s Hispanic and Latin-American communities, who will undoubtedly be the first to suffer from profiling and the last to have...
Power said that like many of the “overachievers” in the crowd, as a child she, too, was eager to make a name for herself. In fact, as a five-year-old, she took the liberty of scrawling “Samantha Power did this” in orange crayon atop her mother’s newly printed, 300-plus page doctoral dissertation, she recalled...
...very no-nonsense. She didn’t look like she spent all of her time putting on her make-up and doing her hair,” Mary H. Metz ’60 said. “Her very appearance and demeanor was serious. She was validating the idea of a woman who was serious...