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...From Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) to Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking), from Zig Ziglar (Born to Win) to Rick Warren (The Purpose-Driven Life), this idea has never lost its power over the American imagination. Giuliani tries to tap into that power by presenting himself as the ultimate can-do politician, a man who approaches government like a business, who prefers results over ideologies and who sees victory as the national birthright...
...point. Who hasn't mourned their team's loss as if a loved one had died? Who hasn't celebrated a win with an outpouring of jubilation normally reserved for a birth or a marriage? To non-fans, the passion of sports lovers is often unfathomable, because it seems driven by things so trivial...
...land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York Times, "villagers living along the boundary of the park have been beaten and shot at, and their livestock has been confiscated by armed park rangers." All this so that swimming pools can be heated and Maseratis driven with a clear conscience in the fattest parts of the world...
...next most competitive thing I can apply for?’” Queried whether Harvard pushes the Rhodes on unwilling victims, he attributed the unusual number of Harvard-educated scholars not to the College itself, but to its students: “Harvard students are driven to be Rhodes more than anyone else. Harvard has had a grossly disproportional number of applicants, not just scholars; that has to do with the DNA of Harvard students, and has for a generation...
...hour library, a student pub, universal swipe card access, later dining hours, college-wide performing artists, and fair trade bananas—gripes reminiscent of Dell and Mylavarapu’s criticisms of Oxford. As Gerson put it, “American universities are extraordinarily consumer driven, with the student being king. The consumer culture of American universities has not been transported to Britain. You’d think that scholars would welcome that...