Wow.

Monday, 9 June 2008 11:22 am
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Harvard Commencement Address as delivered by JK Rowling.

...It was mentioned last week on a few friends' lists, and I put off reading it, 'cause well. JK Rowling?

I am moved. And humbled. Her two pieces of advice are precisely the things that I think Ivy League graduates need to hear. And I'd make an argument toward all Westerners as well, in particular anyone who is happy with their definitions for failure and imagination.
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