Word: turow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Class Day speaker Scott L. Turow did not tell the Class of '92 yesterday that the secret to success is hard work. Or ambition, or preparedness or persistence...
...Circumstances cannot be controlled," said Turow to the crowd of approximately 2000 seated in Tercentenary Theater. "Life is chance, and talent is only one ingredient...
...Turow pointed to his own life story as evidence that for the graduating seniors, facing a job market that offers scarce opportunities, success would depend mostly on "being at the right place, at the right time...
Tracing his life story from his undergraduate days at Amherst College as a struggling and oft-rejected writer to his current days of professional success, Turow explained how he had been able to reconcile the dreams of the novelist with the plans of a lawyer...
...meanwhile, between defending and fathering,Turow, who lives in the same house in which hewrote his two bestsellers, still commutes to workevery day. And on the morning train from Wilmetteto the Sears Tower, blueprints for another novelare in the making