Word: essay
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...Campaigning on Oprah b. Making Oprah wish Al Haig was still campaigning c. The winner of O magazine's "What I Like About Me" essay contest d. Flogging a book...
Tyler Walton, 9, who submitted an essay for Scholastic's "How the Harry Potter Books Changed My Life" contest, has undergone arduous treatment for leukemia. "Harry Potter helped me get through some really hard and scary times," he wrote. "I sometimes think of Harry Potter and me as being kind of alike. He was forced into situations he couldn't control and had to face an enemy that he didn't know if he could beat...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...captain of a sports team who was also the best athlete in the Ivy League in his sport, another a leader of one of Harvard's top four student groups and the third was yours truly, who admittedly dampened his chances with, of all things, a sloppy essay. Perhaps all three of us never had a shot, but then again, perhaps our promise was grievously underestimated, just like that of an advanced standing classmate of ours who after not being endorsed for the Rhodes last year went on to win a Marshall...
...mention this history in order to introduce my real subject - the infinitely civilized, decent, and human Michel de Montaigne, sometime mayor of Bordeaux and inventor of the modern essay. Montaigne, a Catholic whose mother was a Jew, lived squarely in the middle of the religious wars, yet managed to survive them handsomely and even to be a friend to Henri of Navarre and Henri of Guise, not out of duplicity but out of sheer decency...