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There are many ways to attain great wealth. It can be done legally or illegally, through personal effort or inheritance or marriage. Luck can play a role; so can skill, brains, ambition and opportunity. But big money, the kind of money that buys expansive estates and ocean-going yachts, California vineyards and professional sports teams, is usually reserved for a select...
...passion of discovery shows most readily with the most exotic and most romantic figures, and passages about them are the most interesting in the book Ferdinand Magellan, who "with five barely seaworthy ships would face rougher seas, negotiate more treacherous passages, and find his way across a broader ocean" than any previous explorer, when he sought to circle the globe; Captain James Cook, first to sail to Antarctica, "a frigid continent girded by icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with...
Only when time could be precisely measured could space be systematically explored. From the 14th century clock came the 15th century navigational instruments that could guide mariners across an uncharted ocean. Yet history is only occasionally that logical, as Boorstin delights in pointing out, for much of it derives from blunders and accidents. Bartholomeu Dias' maps all showed that there was no ocean route around Africa. It was only after he had been driven off course by a storm in February of 1488 that he found he had somehow rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and that there...
...sober presentation. This time around the star-crossed hopefuls are the ebullient Crocker and sweeter-than-sugar Hope Harcourt. True, Hope has another fiance but the undulating Reno (Heidi Dallin) makes an effort to rearrange the romantic supply and demand. All of this on a luxury ocean liner...
...amused. But college presidents aren't funny--not intentionally. We must assume they meant it. This is terrifying. If college presidents believe Harvard's not up there, what else don't they believe? Is not John Paul II one of the five leading Catholics? Is not the Pacific Ocean one of the five largest bodies of water on the West Coast? Is not the moon one of the five largest celestial bodies orbiting our planet? We think so. But 52.4 percent of college presidents probably...