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...after his father died, he went through a colossal struggle to save the family's land. He became an attention junkie after his come-from-nowhere win made him a media darling and a party hero. And staying true to his ideals was almost impossible in Washington, where he spent three terms in Congress - and where horse-trading is the only way to get things done. (See Mark Sanford's mea culpa, plus nine other high-profile apologies...
Since I had spent the day with my ball going in any direction other than the one in which I intended it, my mother suggested that I simply aim for the tree and the ball would probably end up on the fairway. Of course, that was when my aim suddenly became accurate; I had to take four swings, and hit four trees, before I managed to make it out of the woods. Yet by the end of J-Term, after putting in a lot of hard work, I did successfully manage to play a few full rounds of 18 holes...
...spent many of my formative years in Livermore, dealing with a “High School Musical” obsession, witnessing an iguana invade the local pool, and getting to know some of my best friends. Losing the warm temperatures of California was definitely threatening, but even more so was losing the connections I had built there...
...some point [research spending] can’t keep growing more than the economy,” he says. “I certainly would have other priorities, as well as science, as to how my tax dollars get spent...
...become comfortable with the routine and the idiosyncrasies of the office. But more than that, I was spending 40 hours a week seeing the way so many other 40-hour weeks were spent. I got a chance to play at real life between my study abroad Euro-trip and life back on Harvard time, and now I’m seven minutes behind instead of six hours ahead...