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“Nearing the end of life’s journey, all of us have a tendency to look back”

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"Nearing the end of life’s journey, all of us have a tendency to look back — often with regret," Ernie Harwell writes in a column celebrating his 92nd birthday. "It happened to me last week as I read the record of my grades at Emory University, rediscovering that I was not a good student. If that’s not the understatement of the 21st Century, it’s close. Like saying Marie Antoinette died of a sore throat or Brigham Young was a married man. I was a bad student because of majoring in everything except study. I was much too busy editing the Emory Wheel newspaper, misguiding my SAE fraternity and dancing life away. I was concentrating on being an entrepreneur — a nicer way of saying a promoter or hustler."
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