head off after that and told Vincent to come down. He said they were going to skin and eat the bear. I wish I could have a recording of him telling his story because he captivates you while he tells it. He said that the bear was still blinking and the tongue was still moving when he cut the head off. He says, I told my brother, see, the bear is still tasting us. As he was skinning the bear he said it felt like someone dumped ice cold water on him. The realization of it all.

A PHOTO OF MY GRANDFATHER AS A YOUNG MAN

Now my Grandfather is not scared of bears. He always tells me if you dont bother bears they will leave you alone. He hasEconomists like Robert Reischauer ruffled feathers several years ago by pointing out that talented, driven kids are more likely to go to college in the first place--that they succeed, in other words, because of their innate abilities, not because of their formal education.
Bill
Gates
Bill Gates
, who dropped out of Harvard to start
Microsoft
, certainly doesnt fit the stereotype of a low paid college dropout.

In fact, more than a couple of billionaires never graduated from college.
Larry
Ellison
Larry Ellison
, cofounder of database giant
Oracle
, dropped out of the University of Illinois and is now worth $16 billion. Fellow billionaire John Simplot, inventor of the frozen French fry, never even finished high school. Neither did Alan Gerry, who built the first cable television network in upstate New York and then sold it to Time Warner