Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
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We feel we are making concessions according to our first desires, but we are certainly excited that we seem to have a workable plan the city can agree to. Hopefully it meets with community approval.
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The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.
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Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right thing.
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Everyone seems to be pointing the finger at Mick.
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Whenever we needed a basket he seemed to get one for us.
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This was a game where we were always behind. We played well in the first half, but came out cold in the third quarter. Raymond outplayed us. It seemed that they got every loose ball and they hustled.
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Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.
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There's so much in there. ... I'm thrilled to see the final product.
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Mental Floss is what it is. It's about people learning information they always thought they should know.
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It's good training for a writer, ... entertaining people, telling them about your life, listening as they tell you about theirs.
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Our goal from the beginning has been to blur the line between education and entertainment, ... why not have one with our goal of education?
We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.
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We're very pleased that the court agreed 100 percent with our perspective. The decision sets aside a tiny area around Andrews Lake for non-motorized use.
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It was very difficult at times. The workers were forced to pull back from some roads as high winds were causing trees and branches to fall.