Vintage Chic
November 2011
“Pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived.”
—Jonathan Franzen, Commencement address at Kenyon College on May 21, 2011
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Louisa Lim, NPR
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Lee Myung-bak was so poor as a child that he wore his school uniform every day because he had no other clothes. He became a student activist and helped Hyundai become the massive conglomerate it is today. In many ways, Lee’s life story — and ultimate success — mirrors that of South Korea.
Photo: Courtesy of Lee Myung-bak
Quite the Cinderella story. I once walked past him on a riverbank in Stockholm.
