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The BEK Interview: ‘Everything Is Going to Be Okay’
Andrew Ladd interviews Bruce Eric Kaplan (better known to readers of The New Yorker as BEK), who has a new book out. Bruce Eric Kaplan is a Los Angeles-based television writer and producer who’s...
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Talking About Success
Student Speaker, President Downie, GMP Founder MatlackGMP Founder Tom Matlack spoke to Pine Street Inn’s job training graduates about falling down and getting back up.Pine Street Inn began serving the...
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Why President Obama Should Speak at Barnard and Columbia (Men) Should Shut It
Photo: NASA/Bill IngallsIn the gender discussion (okay, “war” in you must) of 2012 I have not always been perceived to be a friend to the feminists. I know, I know. Feminist is a big tent and it...
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Father and Son Graduate College Together
On Sunday, two Dorian Joyners donned their caps and gowns to graduate from Morehouse College in Georgia, where the commencement speech was given by President Obama.In 1988, Dorian Joyner Sr. was a...
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What Do You Think of Joss Whedon’s Commencement Speech to Students?
The famous writer and director said to students: “You are all going to die.”Nerd King Joss Whedon, of “Firefly” and “Avengers” fame, gave a commencement speech to the 2013 graduating students at...
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The Young Man With No Guests At Commencement
Some students defy the odds. Their common denominator is natural curiosity. ___ This is final exam week here at the community college. The faculty and guests will attend a commencement ceremony in the...
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A Divorced Dad Reflects: Graduation was Years Ago, But Life Commencement is Now
Bill Douglas’s youngest graduates from high school, and that fact has given him a moment. He realizes that he is less about graduation and more about commencement. Here’s how. — Hard to believe, on...
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Time Machine Series: Exploring Past, Present, and Future
Pomp and CircumstancePASTAt my high school graduation in 1995, I had a captive audience of 425 graduating students below me on the Santa Fe High School football field, and all their parents and...
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The Cut
Portraits of the PatriarchyFather Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhoodPart 10The procedure was transactional—like getting a haircut, except the cutting was happening nowhere near...
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The Commencement Speech That Wouldn’t Die
This graduation speaker left Al DeLuise in tears — of laughter._______We have all been there, trapped in an auditorium or meeting where someone just droned on, oblivious of their surroundings, totally...
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