Microsoft aquired Skype on this day – May 10 – in 2011.
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The advantages of elite higher education compound over the generations. Affluent, well-educated parents marry each other and confer their advantages on their kids, who then go to fancy colleges and marry people like themselves. As in all caste societies, the segregation benefits the segregators. And as in all caste societies, the inequalities involve inequalities not just of wealth but of status and respect.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Saskatchewan
Campus Life at the
University of Guelph
Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup on this day in 1967
Google Translate was launched
on this day in 2006
Google Translate was launched on this day – April 28 – in 2006.
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Practical people have little idea of the practical ability required to write a large book, and especially a large history.
~ Walter Bagehot
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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.
~ Edmund Cooper
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All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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In some ways, we’ve just reestablished the old hierarchy rooted in wealth and social status—only the new elites possess greater hubris, because they believe that their status has been won by hard work and talent rather than by birth. The sense that they “deserve” their success for having earned it can make them feel more entitled to the fruits of it, and less called to the spirit of noblesse oblige.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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