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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. I went right away into the second one. I didn't want any "computer viruses" getting into my mind. I even played a game, a mind game, a word game with myself. After you win the next year, people will say you're "defending" your National Championship. I prohibited the use of the word "defend." What I said, for that team, I said, "We've already got the National Championship for that year. We're going to pursue." And sometimes the difference between defend (protective) and pursue (go after), I think, was the difference in us winning it the second time.
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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
In 1989, I remember, we lost in Seattle to Seton Hall. After the ball game, we came back to my suite where we meet. It was the last time our group of people were going to be together. That's the last game. But there were other kids who were coming back. I said, "Instead of going home, we're going to stay through the National Championship game, because we're eventually going to win a National Championship." Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had. And then to go on, maybe, to put them in a position where they might be able to. I try to do that, and now I'm teaching it in game situations. In November, I might do a thing where it's an end-of-game situation: "Well, this is what we're going to do, fellas, in the Final Four." Little things like that throughout the year create a championship mindset.
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Charles Kuralt
A Life On the Road
When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. A very big setback was a big story that broke, the big earthquake in Alaska. And, NBC managed to get its first film on the air from that event 20 minutes, or half an hour before CBS News did. That was entirely my responsibility. And, I was abruptly -- well, within a few days I was told to forget about it. I could just come home from Los Angeles and return to New York where my bosses can keep an eye on me. They knew I wasn't any good at covering breaking news stories.
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Charles Kuralt
A Life On the Road
TV critics, especially those of The New York Times, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. But, I figured I knew more about it than they did, and so it never bothered me a lot. I guess it must have bothered me a little bit when Tom Shales of the Washington Post ridiculed me for a whole column one time. Talked about -- I have this fat face -- he talked about my chipmunk cheeks and the light, inconsequential nature of my reporting. And, I guess that bothered me for a day or two. I think you do have to stop and say, wait a minute, does this guy have a point here? But, I finally decided he didn't, that he was right about the chipmunk cheeks, but about the quality of my work, I'd finally decided he was wrong.
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Meave Leakey
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Meave Leakey: In 1959, that was the year that -- they had been working intermittently at Olduvai since -- Louis's first trip was in 1931, and they had gone there together in 1935. So they'd gone back whenever they could find the time and the money. Louis was convinced that if they kept doing that, they would finally find really good evidence of human ancestors there, because the ground at Olduvai is covered in stone tools. There are stone tools everywhere. Louis felt that if they looked long enough, they would find the maker of the tools. It was from 1931 until 1959. In 1959, Mary Leakey spotted these teeth, which turned into a fantastic skull, which they nicknamed -- well, they called Zinjanthropus and nicknamed "dear boy." You can imagine them calling it "dear boy" after all that time. So this was a skull that really set the scene in East Africa, 'cause up until that time there had been no discoveries of anything other than what they had found at Olduvai, which was just isolated teeth and skull fragments.
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Meave Leakey
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Meave Leakey: It was in the ground in situ, but it was very cracked and broken, and it had roots going through it and it was covered in rock. It actually took one of the preparators in the museum, Christopher Chiari, nine months to get the rock off the skull, so it was nine months before we could really look at it and see what we had. So from the time of digging it out of the ground, we had to wait nine months before we could study it and then when we studied it we had to compare it with all sorts of other things. So that's why it wasn't actually published until 2001, in spite of being found in 1999.
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Meave Leakey
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Meave Leakey: Things have really changed, and dramatically changed I think. It's really encouraging now when I'm talking to students, in America particularly, that the student body is often more girls than men, young women than men. And it is, as you say, it's very quick. It's happened really quickly. I really wanted to do marine zoology, so I chose my university because there was a very good marine station there. I never dreamt I would be anything but a marine zoologist. It was straightforward as far as I could see. I went to a good school, got a good degree, and there you go. But when I started to apply for jobs, the answer was always negative, because I was a woman and they didn't have facilities (for women) on boats for men. You really can't do oceanography and marine zoology without going to sea. So it was just "No, no, no." Which is how I finally got into going to Africa and doing paleontology.
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