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...Over the last 25 years Falcone has ascended as a self-made financial entrepreneur—founding his own hedge-fund, Harbinger Capital Partners...
...liberal arts as those that “empower you with the possibility of exercising agency, of discovering meaning, of making choices” because “the meaning of your life is for you to make.” In other words, liberal education is an essentially self-contained and self-serving project...
Borges told his younger self about the life that awaited him: his family, the endless pages yet to be written, and even the looming World War that would dwarf the first one. Only literature–Dostoyevsky, Coleridge, Hugo–brought them together, yet their interpretations profoundly differed. Ultimately, Borges and The Other were the same person, but they were also strangers. Too much time, too many experiences came between them...
...banks of the Charles, Borges was glad his younger self never asked him how successful his verses and books would be. As we face the unanswered questions of where, to whom, and to which causes we shall devote our lives, let us leave today with a promise: to remain true to an ever-changing path, yet always armed with Harvard’s lesson of how to succeed–and also how to fail...
...also began to realize just how American I actually am. At home, it’s easy to be struck more by the plethora of differences between myself and my fellow citizens, but while abroad it came home to me how much I like the confident, rough and tumble, self-made, “can-do” attitude that’s part of the United States. Is this confidence a little arrogant? Probably. But it’s charming, too. Very...