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...almost without knowing it that I fled to the one extracurricular activity I could find that could sanction my desire to be alone with the worry-free stamp of institutional approval. I had to spend two hours every morning alone listening to records; it was my job. While I realize it isn’t the bravest thing to hide under the banner of required aloneness, there is still something to be said for required solitude, for time away from Facebook and final clubs, alone in a basement, listening to screeching saxophones and melancholy chords. So here I sit, playing...
...sending all taxpayers a tax rebate going to get us to do what the government wants us to do and spend more? Is the current plan optimally designed to achieve the government’s goals? Is sending people a tax rebate the best way to fuel the economy...
...When you spend a lot of your life studying education, you get very skeptical about announcements,” he said...
University presidents spend hours each spring refining their remarks for graduation day. And while Harvard’s Drew G. Faust is no exception, her most closely watched speech comes one day early...
Rescorla learned many of the tricks of survival in the military. He was one of those thick-necked soldier types who spend the second halves of their lives patrolling the perimeters of marble lobbies the way they once patrolled a battlefield. Born in England, he joined the U.S. military because he wanted to fight the communists in Vietnam. When he got there, he earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart in battles memorialized in the 1992 book by Lieut. General Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young...