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Come April 30, throngs of early morning commuters and National Public Radio (NPR) fans will miss a familiar voice. NPR has asked—read commanded—Bob Edwards of “Morning Edition,” long a morning-radio staple, as much a part of each a.m. as grapenuts and coffee, to vacate his post as host to the popular daily show as part of a larger effort to update the network’s content and style. Edwards, who has served as host since the show’s inception in 1979, will be sorely...
Lewis, in the end of his article, expresses his fear that his boys will miss out on his own masculine rite of passage. That his male children will not be subjected to his coach’s abuse is the most encouraging part of his piece. It’s unfortunate that—unless we start recognizing alternative notions of “real manhood”—his kids will learn the tough guise anyway...
...miss an exclusive party (but conspicuously clutching a notebook and pencil), FM headed to the house for “Sex on the Beach” night...
...election, a turned down Rockefeller grant application, zero job offers and rejection from numerous parties and women. Is that all? Not even close. The Din and Tonics denied him a spot five times, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals rejected him four times and last year the judges of the annual Miss Harvard pageant refused Maats the sparkling crown and velvet sash—for the second year in a row. “I have no qualms about being publicly humiliated,” he says. “I think that’s the nice thing about rejection. It?...
...Langer writes. “More likely, I think, would be a response like ‘90% of the time.’ Yet rarely do people respond to their first disappointing grade thinking that it is just part of their ‘expected’ 10% miss.” The true failure, she contends, is not taking a longer-term view of personal performance...