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...Britain, when you achieve, you're not supposed to really feel proud about it. Or if you are, you're supposed to keep it very much to yourself and pretend that your achievement was the result of luck or some kind of fluke that just happened to you. And you really have to play it down and not go around boasting, because boasting is a bad thing to do here...
...Some people have the luck or curse to do what they're supremely good at; and the exercise of that skill gives pleasure, even if the job carries the imminent risk of death. The talent that another man might have for making bombs, James has for finding and silencing them. It's not just his job, it's his vocation. Whether he's stripping a car piece by piece or cutting open a boy's stomach to pull out an IED, James has the instincts, let's say the genius, to do it. "Mission accomplished" is not a Presidential...
...this guy a genius, or just lucky? "There was some luck, but I don't want to say it's just luck," Shiller says. "It was also me thinking something crazy was going on here, and I just wanted to say it." This is not some Wall Street sharpie talking, but a floppy-haired, 62-year-old scholar with a gentle, meandering way of explaining the world. Shiller's new book, The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, offers a succinct sample of this worldview, which we'll get to. First...
...With luck, students won't have to outsource their educational needs for much longer. This summer, Congress hashed out a new law that would require textbook publishers to provide pricing information to professors, to help them decide which books to select for their courses. There are also e-books - digital texts available on the Internet either for free or a small price - not to mention book rental services and good old-fashioned hand-me-downs...
...Iraq, their other son was working on a conveyor line in Anchorage, got caught in the belt and had his head partially crushed. He lived to stand across the kitchen table from me and his parents, looking fully healed just three months later, grinning at his dumb luck and wondering what comes next in life. "It makes you realize that a thing like a little teenage pregnancy isn't such a big deal," his mom said. "Bristol - and lots of other girl like her out there - are going to be just fine...