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After nearly four decades at Harvard, Lewis will leave his post this month under a cloud. It did not have to be this way. The loss of his knowledge and institutional memory is incalculable—part of the wide-scale national throwing out of talent as once-valuable leaders are put out to pasture. In their 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All-Society, economists Philip Cook and Robert Frank point to how “winner-take-all” contests lead to a waste of national talent. The arrival of a new top dog means that...
...addition to inspiring greatness in those around him, Meyer has spent his entire life coming up with his own gags—a talent he clearly has in abundance...
...primary instrument became the trumpet, which he played throughout college both independently and in the Bach Society Orchestra. At Harvard, he tapped into a small community of musicians, many of whom lived with him in Dunster House, known in the days before randomization as the hub of student musical talent...
...going to college, he took a job as a mail clerk with the United Parcel Service, delivering packages to radio studios in New York. By chance, he met a broadcaster who encouraged him to go down to Miami, where the radio industry was flourishing and looking for new talent...
...With a talent for public speaking and improvisation, King, who has been on the air for 46 years now, does not like to rehearse speeches just as he does not rehearse for his show...