Word: scholarshipped
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Friedman continues the informal mode of popular scholarship that earned him acclaim. Exclamation marks are everywhere, and Friedman coins several clever and useful monikers. “Developing Countries Anonymous,” for instance, expresses the need for underdeveloped countries to engage in self-reflection, openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence...
...year-old daughter who, while quite tolerant of my yoga habit, just might go off the rails if I indulge my yen for a six-month retreat at an ashram in Kerala. Then there's the college-tuition bill. Do you think Skidmore would cook up an emergency scholarship for my son if my contribution to the family income suddenly dropped to, say, zero? Oh, and there's one more problem. Since my husband is self-employed, we're awkwardly dependent on my company-supplied health insurance. Umm, scratch the ashram...
...part of the settlement, which is the largest in Boston’s history, the city will also contribute $100,000 to a scholarship fund and a public memorial, said Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole at a news conference on Monday...
...just one of those classes that everyone thought was one of the best,” Yeo said after the ceremony. “It was very inspiring—scholarship with a conscience...
...seems that such a strategy, however cutthroat, worked out for him in the end. Immediately after graduating with a degree in History and Literature, he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright Scholarship. Then, after a few years of struggling for work in New York, he started to get some breaks. Three decades later, he has over 30 movies under his belt, four Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, two Academy Award nominations, and several starring roles on Broadway...