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Sep 4, 2009

"There is a difference between seeing and seeing ... The eyes of the spirit have to work in perpetual living connection with those of the body, for one otherwise risks seeing yet seeing past a thing." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Andre Agassi's Second Act

"Life's blessings are not handed out evenly," tennis star Andre Agassi told the crowd a couple of days ago, still settling back in its seats after a spontaneous standing ovation. "Caring means doing." He was being honored for his work on behalf of the Andre Agassi Foundation, which has raised $75 million to date and used it to start a charter high school in a poor part of Las Vegas. This year, every senior in the school was accepted to a college. "100%," Agassi said, proudly. Agassi quoted one of the senior commencement speakers, who is now in a college pre-med program. "She said that some who are short-sighted have labeled us as at-risk," Agassi said. "She said that was right. That we are at-risk. At risk of excellence."