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...What does God mean to me? That's the question? I guess I was made this way for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious. I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more...
...people and ideas behind today's most influential design. Or, more specifically, the designers and impresarios who are creating useful and beautiful products, furniture, objects, buildings, houses, fabrics, even kitchen utensils. Of course, it's never easy to whittle down a list when there is so much talent in the global market. It's a matter of differentiating between good and great design. Morris had it right: great design is that magical confluence of beauty and function. But there's another almost intangible element, which is the emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke...
...benefits of globalization, perhaps its most obvious pitfall is that it risks replacing vertical, national boundaries with horizontal ones based on class and talent. Harvard graduates have long occupied distinguished places in American society, but they always remained unambiguously part of it. In their cities, factories, churches, and legislatures, they had little choice but to interact and cooperate with their less privileged countrymen. In the wars honored inside Memorial Hall and Memorial Church, they fought and died alongside everybody else...
...talent is there. The administration is behind him. And Amaker, despite the lack of scholarships, will finally be free of NCAA sanctions and a distracted athletic department as he attempts to recruit and form a Harvard program...
...school full of ideals, but most students wake up in a few months thinking that ‘my only choice’ is to work at a commercial law firm,” Bartholet says. “I think that’s a waste of talent.”BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERSAdopting Christopher was an eye-opener for Bartholet. She recalls that the system in place for international adoption was incredibly bureaucratic, each step shrouded in layers of difficulty. Bartholet was forced to wait in Peru for over three months before she could finally take her child home.Two...