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MOLLY: My mom has been such a great supporter of my work. My grandfather [author] Howard Fast and my father had this dynamic where my grandfather never wanted my father to succeed. He had a very mixed feeling about it, and he would always sort of tear him down. My mother has never, ever wanted but for me to be 20 times more successful than she. She is so unconflicted about that. That has really helped. Considering where she's come from, my mom is like the biggest mensch. Her parents were cold...
...sets the tone perfectly for the team in terms of getting us motivated and reaching our full potential,” Jakus said. “He makes sure we can succeed at a top level...
...Welch didn’t opt for a free ride to the postseason, nor would he ultimately join a team that would succeed on the strength of the accomplishments of those who had come before him. His legacy would be bottled up with the resurrection of a program whose glory days seemed to have long since past...
...start by telling people that the smartest and most engaging students we know might not have even set foot in a traditional classroom at all. But above all, we can tell parents that the happiest students we know did not burn out in early childhood from constant pressure to succeed, to beat ever increasing odds to reach the next rung of the ladder...
...from a hysteria led by the angriest and most powerful voices in Washington seems now bent on driving from office, as might some mob out of control, its own leader. It seems like good sport, but with deadly consequences for Harvard and liberal universities everywhere. Who would want to succeed University President Lawrence H. Summers, or indeed even teach at or attend a place so disconnected from its glorious past? When will some new delcared truth entrap our next leader...