Part Of Something Larger

Newsweek, February, 2008 by Howard Fineman

By 1990, Artur Davis had worked his way up from a childhood of poverty in Alabama to the top of his graduating class at Harvard College, and he was a hard man to impress. On day one at Harvard Law, he stopped by a classroom to hear a speech by a senior who was the new president of the Law Review. Davis wasn't expecting much from the guy with a funny name. But he was surprised and riveted. "I still remember almost every word,C Davis told me last week. "He said we faced three challenges. First: competence, which was expected. Second: excellence, which only some seek. Third: mastery, which very few ever tried for. It was a level of proficiency and skill so high it allowed you to do something better than anyone else. He urged us to seek that." It wasn't just what the man said, Davis...

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