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...being." He finds it incomprehensible that anybody would want to be him. His own yearning to be someone else has only recently "leveled off into just a feeling of missing something," he says. But his youthful days as a loser served him well. They have given his misfits the stamp of humanity. "I guess I don't think of them as misfits," he says. "I'm interested in people outside looking in, I guess because that's maybe how I feel." What's the best revenge for getting beaten up in high school? Writing well--and having a say about...
...Franklin’s choices were self-interested. His political leanings had more to do with his family name and pocket than his ideals, at least until the Constitutional Convention. He tried to get his woefully incompetent son, William, appointed Royal Governor of New Jersey and opposed the Stamp Act not because of its assault on the rights of a free press but because printers happened to take a severe cut with each stamp they were forced to place on a newspaper...
...desire for experimentation. According to colleague Alfred Guzzetti, Rogers had “a passion for learning about a subject,” and “what he liked about filmmaking was where it took him.” Rogers engaged intellectual arguments and left his own personal stamp on his work, all with a constant forward energy. Guzzetti characterizes Rogers’s filmmaking as “like packing a suitcase—he tried to get as much in as possible...
...racked up $2.3 billion in user fees last year, the number of monthly transactions per machine has fallen by half since 1996. Banks are essentially fighting for customers at every gas station and corner store. A few years ago, some started offering extra services, such as check cashing and stamp dispensing...
...announcement comes as the Board of Overseers prepares to meet Sunday morning to rubber stamp the Corporation’s designated replacement for member Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, who announced last December that he would retire at the end of the academic year...