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The wise heart seeks knowledge: Dalai Lama brings teachings to Emory

“A good person means someone with a good heart, a sense of caring for the welfare of others, a sense of commitment, a sense of responsibility. Education and the warm heart, the compassion heart—if you combine these two, then your education and knowledge will be constructive. Then you are yourself on the way to becoming a happy person.”--His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Presidential Distinguished Professor
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Father to a President

The first time Rev. Robert Certain 69C met Gerald Ford, the former president was at his vacation home in Colorado. A one-on-one meeting with a man who once sat in the Oval Office might be intimidating, but not for Certain. In his life, he'd faced much more daunting challenges than that.
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Check out the new logos

The change is small—just the transposition of two letters—but implications for the future of alumni are likely to stretch far beyond the creation of a new acronym. This month, the AEA, as the Association of Emory Alumni is casually known, has become the EAA, the Emory Alumni Association.
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Put me in coach, I'm ready to play

When John Robitscher 81Ox 83C 92PH decided to make a career change, he was hoping for a smooth transition. However, making the change proved to be harder than anticipated.
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Emory welcomes first vice provost for diversity

Ozzie Harris, formerly director of Dartmouth College's Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, has been named Emory's first senior vice provost for community and diversity. He will begin the new position March 1.
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"Please burn all my letters"

So pleaded Ted Hughes, the late poet laureate of Britain, to his lover Assia Wevill, in one letter in the collection of correspondence recently acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library, an instruction she obviously did not follow.
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New unit blends cutting-edge care with comforts of home

Fulfilling a promise to its patients and taking full advantage of the opportunity to design from scratch and build to completion a new hospital-based model of care for the 21st century, Emory Hospital last month unveiled its new Neuro Critical Care Unit.
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The Emory Wheel now fits in e-mailboxes

The Emory Wheel, Emory's award-winning independent student newspaper, invites alumni to register for online delivery of the electronic version of the paper.
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