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Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
It's hard for anybody in the United States to realize how difficult and how exacting the program is of the Dutch high schools, certainly at that time. Here they have a little homework. I would have classes -- four in the morning, two in the afternoon -- and go home with homework for five different things. And, the following morning that had to be completed. And, if in Holland you get French, or English, you don't have it for one year or so, you have that the next year, too.
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Henry Kravis
Financier and Investor
I like to tell the story about how I sold magazines as a kid in the seventh grade in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I'd go door to door, and I always had to be the best salesman. I wanted to go back to my junior high school and win the prize for the day of having sold the most magazines. That was a challenge for me. Or collecting waste paper, old newspaper. I'd go around, and I'd collect, and keep them in the garage. And my mother would say, "When are you going to get rid of that stuff?" and I said, "Well, when you take me down to the waste paper dump, we'll get rid of it then." And I'd collect it in my wheelbarrow, and go around the neighborhood, and she'd take me down and we'd load it on the scales, and they'd pay me $1.36, or whatever it was, for my newspaper, and I'd go back and do it again.
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Nicholas Kristof
Journalist, Author & Columnist
I had been doing a lot of traveling, had traveled through the Middle East, and in particular had gone -- this was 1982 -- had gone to a town called Hamah, in Syria, where about 30,000 people had been wiped out as part of a suppressed insurrection. The center of the town had been completely destroyed. It was rubble, this big, huge, vast area of rubble. And I found some survivors who wanted to tell their story. I couldn't speak any Arabic, they couldn't speak any English or any French, so we couldn't communicate. That experience really made me think that if I wanted to become a journalist, that one of the key skills that would help in that career would be Arabic language, 'cause so few journalists speak it, yet a lot of things happen in the Arabic-speaking world. And so I had applied to study Arabic in Cairo, at the American University in Cairo, and the same week that program came through -- my acceptance there came through and Harvard Law School came through. The Cairo program would essentially take me toward a career in journalism, I thought, and the Harvard Law School to a career maybe as a law professor. So I thought about it, agonized about it, and then decided that Cairo sounded like a lot more fun.
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