“Practice (and watch the time of) your oral presentation.”
“For 2nd year students，take one course each semester that requires you to write a paper. It might be that you write a good paper. However, it is more probable that you write a bad paper. But don’t get nervous about it, because before people write good papers [...]

By Austan Goolsbee, speech at the 486th convocation of the University of Chicago
“Congratulations to you graduates. You made it. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s extremely hot and I am going to spend the next fifteen minutes telling you about economics. Let me start, though, by reminding you that we always [...]

It is interesting and comforting to note that even American news anchors of big cable networks do have a limit to what they are able to bear when it comes to absurdity in politics. Like Jack Cafferty from CNN:

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