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...only imagine what he might have accomplished. He was young, only 44, and an inspiration to me and so many others in a field which seems distinguished often only by its very venality. If public service is the noblest calling, Mickey Leland surely was one of the noblest called...
...Naipaul rebelled against the prevailing backwater mentality. His model was his father, a journalist who tried to bring new ideas to his insular community. Seepersad Naipaul died in 1953, a defeated man of 47. Yet, as his son has written, "he made the vocation of the writer seem the noblest in the world; and I decided to be that noble thing...
...frenzied time when basketball rules the tube, millions pour into college coffers, and lanky young giants seem anointed with superhuman gifts of grace and courage. But beneath the pageantry of March madness lies another, more disturbing kind of madness: an obsession with winning and moneymaking that is perverting the noblest ideals of both sports and education in America...
...policy and the orders, but this kind of mission, this kind of thing the soldiers have to do." It was indeed confusing, and many of Israel's best friends abroad were still struggling to make sense of a policy that seemed at odds with the country's noblest aspirations...
Last year, I marked Lincoln's birthday with a certain bravado. At dinner, I toasted "the noblest man to have ever graced this continent...