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...Keep in mind that if you go to Harvard you will not actually be at the center of the world and are not guaranteed a life of pleasure and fame,” he said. “God blesses people who don’t think they’re great just because their college was born before George Washington...
...Harvard to gripe about its bad press is a bit like a celebrity complaining about paparazzi stalkers. It is an institution that willfully courts prominence and enjoys financial benefits and competition for faculty members and students, partially on the basis of its fame...
...here’s the most telling bit: Dwyer does not even consider himself a hero. According to his mother, Maureen Dwyer, he feels somewhat uncomfortable with his instant fame. After the publication of Zinn’s photograph, he called home to tell her that what he had done was no different than what his fellow soldiers were doing every day. As his mom put it, Dwyer said that he “was not a hero. He said everybody else over there is doing the same thing and he really feels bad” being singled...
...turn seven lengths in front and exited 20 to the good. And then he turned it loose for the adoring mob. At the finish he was 31 lengths in front. The 2:24 set a world record for 1 1/2 miles and a new standard for equine fame...
Imagine the pressure to pick good make-out music when you're a rock legend wooing jazz's sultriest vocalist. Yes, it must be hard to be ELVIS COSTELLO, now squiring DIANA KRALL--to the Grammys, to Costello's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, to a London fund raiser at which the pair performed a duet (Elton John's Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word). Costello, 47, and Krall, 38, met presenting an award at last year's Grammys. "It's a wonderful thing, and it's special to me. I'm really happy," Krall told...