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Well, I’ve got news for you. The answer, in most cases, probably isn’t very profound. The moments of genuine educational value were few and far between. Sure, you learned a few things—perhaps, in your case, they were intermediate Sanskrit, the wisdom of not leaving your laptop unguarded in Lamont and the knowledge that it is possible, albeit painful, to shotgun a beer with your toes. But these jewels of enrichment were connected by miles and miles of paper clip-chain crap. “Joe Millionaire” taught you nothing...
...Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts. "I don't really know why I keep doing this," says Klein. "It goes against all sanity, but you really do live for the moments when politicians surprise you--and I don't mean when...
...year-old pitcher named Smokey Joe Wood, a member of the 1912 Red Sox who had been present at the first official game ever played at Fenway Park. Naturally, in the presence of such an oracle, Angell asks him what the game was like, and he has the wisdom to quote the oracle's answer in full. "I have no idea," Smokey Joe replies. "Can't remember a single thing about it. I didn't pitch--that's all I know. Just another ball game." Whitman couldn't have said it better...
...14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama, meaning “ocean of wisdom,” and is the traditional leader of the Tibetan people...
...Over the next 50 years, top climbers from around the world converged on Everest's slopes to attempt their own groundbreaking firsts. In 1978, Reinhold Messner's ascent without bottled oxygen defied the conventional wisdom that time spent without artificial oxygen above 7,900 meters?in the "death zone"?would cause irreparable brain damage. In 2000, Babu Chiri Sherpa?the most famous Sherpa?climbed from base camp to the top of Everest in just under 16 hours...