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...lived behind the Iron Curtain who was in charge. In the West, the visible costs of division were essentially trivial - a sort of regret that the jumbled spires and steeples of Prague and Krakow would remain the stuff of prints and woodcuts rather than things one saw for oneself - but in the East they were not. Two generations grew up in a climate where their life chances were stunted, where feelings had to be kept private, language stripped of the sort of inflection that would cause trouble. Some gave up more than the ability to think and speak freely; hundreds...
...months earlier to discuss why I had grabbed the grenade. Wain said I had one overriding objective: self-preservation. "That's what all heroes are made of," he said. "I have learned from guys coming back that the instinct to survive, the instinct to take care of oneself or others, is incredibly potent. I really don't care if you did it for your needs or for others; you did it. The end result would have been the same--you saved people's lives...
...college admissions process confounds even the brightest students. The year long process of marketing oneself, claiming that each target school is the “favorite,” and then finally settling on the “right” choice can easily lead to disillusionment and frustration. Getting rid of early action will ease these daunting barriers, but the process cannot be truly meritocratic as long as preferences are given to alumni and athletes.The complex admissions process supposedly distinguishes the qualified from the unqualified, the very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however...
...take away the early admissions option, Harvard will in a way be reducing its appeal to some top tier applicants who are seeking security in knowing where they’re going,” Phillips Exeter Academy junior Conor P. Flynn said. Not having the option to separate oneself into an early applicant group may make applying to Harvard more daunting. “People who apply early admissions to Harvard are probably very qualified and very interested, and now that you’re putting all those people in the general pool, which is already wicked competitive...
...watching oneself is, as Jackson claims, all actors' secret pleasure, Jackson distinguishes himself from his peers in two ways: he cops to vanity, and his vanity has a track record for dovetailing with popular taste. "My agent is always looking for movies to get me the Academy Award, but I don't think like that," says Jackson, whose films have taken in more money at the box office than those of any other actor in history. "I want the movies I'm in to remind me of things I spent Saturday afternoons watching as a kid and then went home...