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...must have been the happiest or the luckiest man alive. As a boy he felt trapped in working-class Blackpool, the Coney Island of England, and so won a scholarship to Cambridge. He loved jazz and American movies, so he got a grant to study at Yale and Harvard, and within a year the most famous person in the world, Charlie Chaplin, asked him to collaborate on a screenplay. He chafed under authority, so he got the BBC to let him do a Letter from America, in which he'd talk for 15 minutes a week on whatever he liked...
...charm and their nettled reluctance to surrender to it. "Well-read, quick, keen, industrious," read a judgment from 1927. "I doubt if he has any real originality." The following year: "satisfactory, but a journalist's mind." And in 1932: "I still believe that he is not really a first-class man, but there is no doubt he has an extraordinary capacity for impressing himself on others.... He is very much out for himself, and I should sum him up as a clever careerist...
...very, very proud of our seniors,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Back to back Ivy League champions. Chris Pizzotti, who was here for five years, helped us win three Ivy League championships, and this is a special senior class...
Think you’re getting a lot out of that economics class? Try weighing the cost-benefit analysis of leaving your dorm after dark, living in Yale housing, or eating Yale food. Studying environmental degradation? There’s no better research project than examining the fascinating New Haven air. You think you can learn about “Justice” by sitting in a classroom? When a deranged thief who’s broken into your dorm room forces you to choose between sacrificing your own life or your roommate’s, trust us: the hypothetical...
...hasn't been the best time to be a Republican - and even worse if you are a black Republican. Take the experience of Ada Fisher. This fall, the Salisbury, N.C., physician ran for a state general-assembly seat representing a mostly white, working-class district. Several black college students who campaigned on her behalf were dissed by peers as "Uncle Toms." Then, in September, as Fisher walked toward the local Republican Party's booth at a county fair, a white man told her to go back to the Democratic Party booth "where she belonged" and to support Barack Obama. Never...