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...speaking not only about the power to reshape an industry like oil or personal computers but also about the ability to improve the world through philanthropy. Rockefeller proved that giving away money is much more than charity. It can be transformative. And if today's billionaires were to pool their resources, they could outflank the world's governments in ending poverty and pandemic disease...
...having “stimulated great progress on campus,” according to the event program. The nominations were then evaluated by a committee of non-senior peers. According to selection committee member Susan H. Nguyen ’09, the committee took seven hours to narrow the pool from the 30 nominees to the eight award recipients...
America persevered because passionate, civic-minded citizens understood the importance of this country's founding traditions and were willing to take a stand in their defense. But these historic lessons are not passed on to new generations through the gene pool. They must be taught in our schools...
...watching the members of OK Go (and the slightly more common privilege of watching Poonsters) throw pies into the rubber trousers of their teammates, throw water balloons into baskets on their teammates’ heads, and race to grab a flag soaking in green slime in an inflatable pool. The “Double Dare” theme music, rather than the songs of OK Go, played in the background. Onlookers described themselves as quite puzzled. “I have absolutely no idea what this is,” Zachary A.Y. Pollinger ’09 said...
...percent in 2000. Diseases like small pox, tuberculosis, and syphilis that once ravaged the Western world have virtually disappeared here. And the development of scientific farming methods, factories, electricity, mass transportation, and even computers has increased the material well-being of whole populations while dramatically reducing the pool of disenfranchised laborers. The result is that reading and writing, once the perquisite of a choice aristocratic class, have been democratized: In 1870, only two percent of American adults had earned a high school diploma, compared to 80 percent today...