I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don't play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don't respond to the actions of active managers.
I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.
There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
