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...don’t really know much about [the course] except that it’s nothing you can’t learn from hanging around the IOP and reading The New York Times,” he wrote...
...thing that everyone in attendance knew, the only thing that most knew, was that I was a coxswain for Harvard. I had never said a word to them, they have never said a word to me, several of the people who insulted me had never even talked about me except to note what school I went to. What was known was that I had won several regattas and that my racing shirt was crimson with a white collar. For many in attendance, that was enough. Ipso facto I was arrogant, a jerk, snotty, annoying and worthy of scorn...
WEST COAST, New Zealand—It was almost midnight and I started to doubt the directions I got from the man in the pub. There were no stars, and in my car, I was enveloped in total darkness except for the small patch of road illuminated by my headlights. My rear-view mirror led to an empty black void as if the back half of my car had all of a sudden merged with the night. There are good reasons for driving alone at this hour. But attempting to locate a cell phone signal that may not even exist...
...jumped 41% between 1999 and 2002, while over the same period accidents increased twice as fast, by more than 83%. P.K. Sikdar, director of the Central Road Research Institute, a New Delhi-based traffic consultancy, ranks the carnage in India right up there with his country's natural disasters?except that "earthquakes and cyclones don't come every year. Road accidents come routinely," he says. "Like clockwork, more than 80,000 people [a year] simply get wiped out on our roads...
...specials, like most average Americans. I think that you can have the tools of privilege without losing touch with regular lives. We started out, as Teresa did, with not the kind of means that we have today, and we haven't changed the way we live very drastically, except we live in a nicer house and we drive a nicer car. But we still try to not spend extravagantly. It is an enormous difference to have that economic safety net that most Americans don't have...