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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop wrote in one of the great masterpieces of poetry. “Every mortal loss is an Immortal Gain,” William Blake wrote two centuries before her in his beautiful letter to a bereaved father. We dream of immortality because we are creatures made of loss — the death…
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Getting High for Higher Education Revisited
The United States persists in waging and endless war on drugs and faces ever increasing and problems with higher education. I will reconsider an immodest proposal I made years ago intended to address both problems. In the case of higher education, one problem is that the cost of education exceeds the resources of many Americans….
