The cowboy image may have been cultivated, but it was not false. You might say it was earned, the vaquero as self-made man. Sam Shepard — reluctant movie star, poet of masculine angst, and rock-and-roll hero of the American theater — thought Broadway and Hollywood were full of middlebrow nonsense.
~ Michael O’Donnell via The Atlantic
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Francis Fukuyama on why it’s hard to build anything in the United States with so many rules.
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The Florida State University was founded on this day — January 24 — in 1851.
The first group of students started their studies on October 3, 1857. Florida State University gained status as a University on May 15, 1947.
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Question: What are the five tallest buildings in Boston that can be seen from the MIT Campus?
Via Wikipedia
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