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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
There was no legal mechanism for getting marijuana for research. There were many different federal and state agencies that were involved. A lawyer who was very interested in marijuana legal issues bet me that I would never be able to obtain permission to get marijuana to do human research. The attitude of the school was, they were very upset, the Human Subjects Committee. Because one of our experimental designs was that we wanted to give marijuana to people who never had it before, because we felt that expectation played an enormous role in determining the effects of marijuana. And people who had previously used it had expectations of what it would do. The Human Subjects Committee of the school took the position it would be unethical to expose people to marijuana who had never been exposed to it. We ended up doing the research at Boston University School of Medicine, because Harvard wouldn't let it be done on their premises. And there was a lot of contention here, I mean, there were a lot of negotiations with many agencies and bureaucracies.
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Andrew Weil
Integrative Medicine
I have a very strong sense of my own -- of what's right -- and I'm able to operate fairly independent of all that kind of storm that goes on. And maybe I would relate that to my upbringing, and as I said, being an only child and having learned to be independent, and think for myself, and operate on my own. I would say, more than difficult, it was lonely for a long time. Because there were not other doctors out there who were advocating the kinds of things that I was doing. And I was often attacked from both sides. From the alternative side for being too mainstream, and from the mainstream side for being too alternative.
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Sanford Weill
Financier and Philanthropist
I got into this business sort of as a fluke. My wife and I were getting married as I graduated from Cornell. And I was in the Air Force ROTC, and I was going to be a pilot, and report down to Lackland Air Force Base in January of 1956 and make $6,000 a year. That was how we were going to start out in life. Then Eisenhower was cutting back on military expenditures, and I was looking for something to do, from June through that January. And in walking around New York and looking for ideas, one day I happened to walk into a brokerage office and it seemed exciting. I had tried to get jobs in that industry when I was at Cornell. And at that point in time, the volume in the New York Stock Exchange was only maybe a million and a half shares a day. Unless you came from a wealthy family, and had good connections, you couldn't get in the business. So I got a job at Bear Stearns and Company, first as a runner, and then worked in the back office. And that's sort of how it all started.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
For the first couple years, I was a biology major, and I got C's and a few D's in chemistry and physics. And then I took my first anthropology class when I was a junior in college, an introductory class. And ended up -- by that time I'd done a lot of archeology -- and the archeology teaching assistant in the class, a graduate student, was telling me things that I knew were not true. So I was able to engage in a debate with a teaching assistant, based on my field experience. And the teaching assistant, I remember saying, "Don't bring that argument in here. You're here to learn from me." At which point I said, "Thank you very much, I don't have that much to learn from you," and I left. I went directly to the professor, who it turns out today, he's a good friend of mine. He's our country's leading radio-carbon dating archeologist, and we've had a great relationship ever since. And he just said, "Come to the lectures. Don't worry about the discussion sections." And that was my introduction to anthropology. And what I did was to add it as a second major.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Tim White: I think that the graduate school experience, the not getting into graduate school really caused me to stop and say, "Well, wait a minute. If I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do, which is to go and do field work in East Africa, and contribute to this ongoing quest for knowledge of our past, then maybe I'll look at different options." I think the story of all of that though, is that you often don't realize what other options there are. There are multiple pathways to the same objective, and if you carry that passion with you, you'll be able to find those pathways.
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