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This Is Not the World I Wanted to Leave for You: Reflections on Legacy, Loss, and the Future We Shape

I have been thinking a great deal lately about living and dying, and about the strange, stubborn human hunger to leave something meaningful behind. The faces of those I have known who have already passed return to me in quiet moments, and I find myself watching those who are, even now, nearing the end of their own stories. I also include my final braided prairie knot in that wondering. In the…

This Is Not the World I Wanted to Leave for You: Reflections on Legacy, Loss, and the Future We Shape

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Plato never wrote the hinted-at sequel to the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, to have been called the Philosopher. I have long cherished the fantasy, anachronistic though it be, that in that work Socrates, questioning Aristotle, would have led him to admit that it is impossible to know whether one knows, and that if wisdom is the contrary state to wonder, then philosophy never ends.

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Scarlett Johansson Is Crushing On These Two Celebrity Chefs!

Scarlett Johansson Is Crushing On These Two Celebrity Chefs!

If Scarlett Johansson is crushing on (or even picks your name for a crushing candidate), you must have done something right. And given her entrepreneurial venture, which is an artisanal popcorn shop in Paris, we’re not surprised that the person she is most probable to like is from the food industry.

The actress was recently on The Howard Stein show to discuss her new movie Ghost In The Shell. Whi…

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Performing Arts and Broadcast Entertainment Professors Should Not Compete with their Students

Performing Arts and Broadcast Entertainment Professors Should Not Compete with their Students

One of the first things my friend, and mentor — and Columbia University in the City of New York professor — Howard Stein told me, was that he was once a produced, and award-winning Playwright, and when he decided to teach other Playwrights at the University of Iowa for a living, he gave up his Playwright life because he didn’t want to compete with his students. I thought that instinct was…

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Paul Newman on Swapping Careers at the Yale University School of Drama

Great teacher, friend, mentor and theatre historian, Dr. Howard Stein, shared a story with his Columbia University in the City of New York MFA Playwriting students at the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre studies.  The topic was eminent actor Paul Newman who was visiting the Yale School of Drama at Howard’s request and was speaking to the theatre students in a question and answer format and…

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Late financier's photo collection going to auction

NEW YORK (AP) — A selection of photographs amassed by the late mutual fund guru Howard Stein is going on the auction block. http://dlvr.it/7ksMfM