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...been a life-long struggle," Coles says, describing his comfortable upbringing. "I don't know how you resolve a question like this. My feeling is that we owe it to others that more of us can have this kind of privileged life...
...Testament. In the 18th century, Jean Jacques Rousseau popularized a secular version of that Eden story with his writings about the Noble Savage. And part of his inspiration for this concept came from his knowledge of the New World. Even Sale's anti-Columbian ideas, it seems, owe more to Columbus than some of his readers might imagine...
...most interesting, thoughtfully conceived new cars coming out of Southern California may, in the end, owe less to local free-spiritedness than to the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work, leaving their problem-solving sessions and reveries undisturbed by the anxious buzz of corporate headquarters...
...clerk she encountered at a local unemployment office held out little hope for a good new job. "I hate to tell you this," Drumm recalls the young woman saying, "but you know that you're over the hill." The remark hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says, "I really owe that girl a thank-you because she put a fire under my tail." With the help of a government program for dislocated workers, Drumm spent the next two years earning a bookkeeping degree, and now works for a local entrepreneur. It will take a nationwide confluence of such grit, entrepreneurship...
...style society. The Russian people have been transformed over a period of years. They are not the Russians whom Bertrand Russell was talking about when he justified Bolshevik despotism by saying "If you ask yourself how Dostoyevsky's characters should be governed, you will understand." The new Soviets owe much of their transformation and fearlessness to Gorbachev -- and by last week they were using that freedom to outgrow...