Word: toiles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resume the toil of the summer job search, I do so with a sense of disillusionment and, admittedly, some resentment. On my desk sit two clippings from the Crimson. One is an ad that offers opportunity to all. The other tells me that a mistake has been made. In fact, due to my skin color, I am not invited. Thankfully, we have come a long way since the days of legal segregation. So why I do I feel like I accidentally sat at the wrong lunch counter...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is a Hispanic agenda...it's the same as the Polish, Irish and Lithuanian agenda: If you work hard, sweat and toil and play by the rules, you will be rewarded...
After flipping through pages long enough, I sometimes worry about the books suffering neglect. Who is reading the five miles of books Harvard's brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...
This doesn't mean that paleontologists have found hominid bones with "Adam" stamped on them along with evidence that Adam disobeyed God, thus condemning the rest of us to lives of toil and hardship. But it does mean that this biblical story line, as transmuted by later thinkers into religious doctrine, has produced some ideas that resonate with modern Darwinian theory. In particular, the Christian doctrine of original sin makes more sense as evolutionary psychologists learn more about why people do bad things...
...Johnson is vowing to stick with it. If Johnson were still running the Magellan Fund at Fidelity today, he would arrive at Boston's One Federal Street, where the 48 fund managers and 81 analysts of the equity division toil. The atmosphere is more subdued than you would imagine in a place where billions of dollars are riding on the employees' bets. The staff is spread over three floors that are connected by an internal staircase, and stock analysts and fund managers wander around a lot, sticking their heads into one another's offices and trading information...