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...whole thing has to be built around human relations and communication; you protect that and build outward." A paradoxical result of all this careful human cultivation is that for many, Eton becomes hard to outgrow: a more intense experience, at a more formative time, than anything that comes after. Nick Fraser, an accomplished documentary filmmaker, has just published The Importance of Being Eton, Inside the World's Most Powerful School, a memoir-cum-essay that probes Eton's lifelong influence. He speaks of classmates who marry each other's sisters in order to remain in a kind of Eton club...
...Dear Nick,So you made it through another four years, through Harvard Law and the presidential campaign. Some people will probably tell you that’s something to be proud of. It is, but only for about ten minutes. Anybody else with your skills and opportunities would have done the same, and quite a few people would have done it better.You’re a lucky person to be where you are, and you don’t deserve it any more than anybody else on this planet. However, now that you have been given so much...
...Chira adds, “Nick has always been interested in places that are more remote, less explored...
...always thought of Nick as someone whose interests are widespread and various, who could change subjects on a dime,” says Keller, who first worked with Kristof during the late 1980s, when they were both reporting in Asia...
...used to joke that, if you were traveling with Nick, you wanted to stay very close with him, because danger was always a short distance away,” Grafstein says. “He just has this incredible knack for being close to incredible news stories...