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...resources. While pursuing passions and planning for the future, you are humbled at every turn; by your classmates, the prestigious faculty, your first-semester crush, the local kids you tutor, or the person that tutors you. Humility also presents itself where you never expected—perhaps the homeless man pursuing his passion by playing music in the Square every evening, or the lunch lady who personally wishes everyone a great day as she swipes their card...
...global health, but rather that he should act through accountable organizational structures, like that of the World Health Organization. While such institutions are not immune to unintended consequences, their collective wisdom, abundant expertise, and historical awareness serve as better safeguards against unintended consequences than the will of one man could ever provide...
...parody trespasses well beyond tongue-in-cheek. Every character is either neurotic, socially oblivious, a raging nymphomaniac, or all three. Philip Wild is not only morbidly obese, but can be seen walking striped cats on leashes down the street. Flora is groped at age 12 by an older man named “Hubert H. Hubert” (many characters are lifted near-wholesale from Nabokov’s other books). And embarrassing puns abound—a miniature chess set is given to Laura because “she knew the moves...
Lieberman said that he was prompted to think about the issue of how barefoot runners were able to run long distance for millions of years without the aid of shoes after he gave a speech before the start of the Boston Marathon. A man who was wearing only duct tape around his socks had insisted on asking Lieberman difficult questions about running...
...figure again in the current trial, which started on Tuesday with preliminary arguments after a delay of nearly 16 months. The 63-year-old politician will once again face Gani Patail, the lawyer who prosecuted him in 1998 and is now Attorney General, as well as Musa Hassan, the man who investigated the first case and is now Inspector General of Police. Anwar has accused both men of fabricating evidence against him, charges they strenuously deny...