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Winokur and Goodwin remind us that Harvard’s leaders are human beings; they are fallible, and it makes little sense to grant them absolute power over a University endowed with some of the best minds in the world...
...used to. In three years, Wilson dropped an astonishing 150 lbs. What's surprising, though, is that she lost not just the ability to overindulge but also her appetite. "For the first year and a half," she says, "it was almost nonexistent. I had to remind myself...
...months, various what-ifs have plagued my thoughts. My choice of concentration, the effort I devoted to my extracurricular commitments, the activities I never tried, the people I might have held on to but didn’t, and the people I never met—all these things remind me of how differently my life might have turned out. I can’t help but dwell upon all the ways I failed to take advantage of this place and time, all the lives I might have led. It’s not that I have many specific regrets...
Literary biographer Leon Edel used to keep a small painting by Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant hanging just inside the doorway of his home office in Honolulu. "Grant painted that when he was 90," Edel, then 72, told an interviewer. "I keep it there to remind myself that a man can be productive...
Sometime this summer, Cianci's legal fortunes will be put in the hands of the jury. If he survives, his political fate will be up to the voters in November, which is why he rarely misses a chance to remind people what Providence was like pre-Buddy. At a reception, he beckons me to a plate-glass window on the 17th floor of the Biltmore Hotel, where he happens to live. "I love this view," he says, gesturing with a glass of '98 Louis Bernard Chateauneuf du Pape. "That was a brownfield," he says of the picturesque street being plied...