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Think about it. We expect that the two years of high-caffeine, low-sleep, no-life, all-work lifestyle are somehow retrievable when we turn 28, and that waiting for us on the other end of the tunnel of investments and consulted companies will be a house, a car, the perfect\ loving spouse, two kids and all the fun we missed along the way. I am not condemning investment bankers or their work ethic. What I am advocating is a quick personal challenge to the way life has currently shaken out. Are you sure this is what you want...
...Dean of Admissions says that another terrific class of students could be collected by gathering 1,600 Harvard rejectees, but that's somehow hard to believe. Where else could I have a set of friends who serve quite happily and efficiently as my own intellectual, personal, and comical Askjeeves.com? (What's postmodernism? What did Hobbes say about freedom? What class should I take? What should I get my girlfriend for her birthday? Where's the bathroom...
...idea of an adrenaline junkie in the commander's chair was understandably nervousmaking in the volatile Middle East. In Washington there were worries that Hizballah or Palestinian extremists might somehow jeopardize the peace process by provoking Barak to retaliate. At the United Nations--which now has to police the Lebanese peace--there was some alarm that Barak had moved unilaterally, but that was followed by cautious optimism. The move was textbook Barak: surprising (his last name means "lightning" in Hebrew), courageous and smart...
...Somehow, though, they seem so to their parents at the time. Fathers, I think, are particularly enthusiastic about showing newborn pictures, maybe because taking pictures is one of the few things fathers can do during the birth process that makes them feel even marginally useful. (When my daughters were born, I should say on my behalf, I also sang along with the Muzak in the labor room in what I thought was a rather entertaining manner and occasionally asked my wife to dance.) I suspect that it's quite common for a father to come across a picture...
...into encoding and EW. Then they began to use anti-tank Tow missiles, very accurate. You find yourself in a quiet, sophisticated, resource-demanding kind of fighting. So basically it became clear that in spite of the fact that our hand is the upper one most of the time, somehow it's a spiraling situation of being dragged deeper and deeper into the mud. And it was the right timing to say, OK, that...