The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung of _The Taipei Times_ add that he subsequently requested a two-month suspension of his duties and pay to atone. — Read the rest
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Various business stiffs wheeled out lately to tell graduates to "deal" with AI were surprised to find themselves booed and jeered. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, private equity strategist Gloria Caulfield and music exec Scott Borchetta didn't get the memo. — Read the rest
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Welcome to The Groom’s Guide, our expert-led handbook to help you navigate the proposal, the wedding and everything in between. Find all the stories here. Before last summer, Sarah Roth had never given a wedding speech. She had never been a bridesmaid or been in a wedding of any kind. So when her older sister […]
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When old guys who played for Lou Holtz talk about him, from my experience, they don’t bring up schemes or Xs and O’s. They bring up speeches from the crusty but legendary coach, TV pundit, and rah-rah guy who died Wednesday at 89 years old. No, not loathsome political speeches. Football speeches.
“That guy could talk,” says Bruce Hanson. He played for Holtz at William & Mary from 1969 through…
Ford's Life Achievement Award brought out his heart, humor, and humility.
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Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace "defying the lie that we are powerless." Bigly upstaging a goalie's Medal of Freedom was "a marathon of truth-telling," from a cogent Dem response to the Portland Frogs leading a restive, joyful, shaggy defense of "this thing we call…