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...still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography), Roosevelt spoke with nothing but guileless sincerity...
...still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography), Roosevelt spoke with nothing but guileless sincerity...
...yourself attitude stems from her advising at Cornell. “I was assigned a faculty and a student advisor. My faculty advisor was not very helpful. He just signed my forms. I think we met once during the academic year. My student advisor, an undergraduate research scholar, was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. We communicated via e-mail and during ‘office hours’ and, when I decided not to study biology, she directed me to her friends, who were in my concentration of interest.” Fellow Cornell transfer student Pankaj K. Agarwalla?...
...class. No matter how much grades inflate, the number of Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees remains 24. Even more telling, and something that surprises most people when they hear of it, is that last year graduating senior Kevin S. Schwartz ’01 (now a Marshall Scholar) was the first undergraduate in eight years to graduate with a perfect 15.0 grade point average...
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