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...While the American side of 49th-parallel rivalry is one that delights in blind ignorance and the default knowledge that America must be richer, more powerful and more important than whatever nation it is pitted against, not so that of Canada. Our parasitic patriotism is rooted not in what we are, but rather what we?...
...Hooker was born in 1917 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, a town where the soil was richer than many of the residents. He came from sharecropping folk, the kind that worked hard and prayed harder - his father was also a minister. Hooker's parents split up when he was young and his mother moved in with William Moore, who became Hooker's stepfather. God's agents had their chance, and now it was time for the Devil's music. Moore taught the young sharecropper's son how to do something else with his hands other than harvest crops - he taught...
...Harvard made headlines last fall when its endowment reached $19.2 billion—making the University $9 billion richer than any other...
Perched atop a veritable goldmine—$19.2 billion and counting—Harvard is richer than any University in the world...
...would not have made it to this 25th Reunion without my Harvard friends. When I look at that Kodachrome, I realize how very fortunate I am to have known the people that Harvard put in my life. How richer I am because of them...