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Galen Silversmith added, "People who were movedstood up in front of" some of the disabled guests."It is impossible for people in wheel chairs tostand up," he said...
Byrne has directed a film (True Stories), written music for dance (Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel), won an Oscar for a movie sound track (Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor) and appeared on the cover of TIME. After the breakup of Talking Heads in 1988, he immersed himself in the sensuality of tropical salsa, releasing two solo albums that hitched his quirky vision to the locomotion of the mambo...
Understandably, the author does not entirely share this sense of relief. A Fish in the Water (Farrar Straus Giroux; 532 pages; $25) is his bittersweet look at the nearly three years he spent in public life. It all came about, he says, "through the caprice of the wheel of fortune." At the time, he thought of his decision to campaign for the presidency as a "moral" one. "Circumstances," he writes, "placed me in a position of leadership at a critical moment in the life of my country." But that's what all politicians say. Vargas Llosa the writer...
...doors and asked friends to come out and play. She got kicked out of dorm crew for refusing to do her job. In the short stories she wrote in high school she concocted, for her friends' confusion, an obsession with a man wearing a ski mask, behind the wheel of a beige pick-up truck; the character drove through every story she wrote for about two or three weeks, says David C. Kammler '94, a friend from high school...
While we often use the wheel analogy to solve minor problems, it is even more useful to help us achieve major successes. If we can find someone who has achieved the goal to which we aspire, then we can learn what the qualities are that made them successful...