Tuesday, May 20, 2014

What might have been …

… from P. J. O'Rourke: My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail — The Daily Beast.

It’s a shame [Condoleezza Rice] was busy. You might have heard something useful from a person who grew up poor in Jim Crow Alabama. Who lost a friend and playmate in 1963 when white supremacists bombed Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Who became an accomplished concert pianist before she tuned her ear to the more dissonant chords of international relations.

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