"If you could trade places with anyone for a day, who would it be, and why?"
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Carol A. Starkey - Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP
"There are so many choices here, but if I could trade places with anyone for a day, it would be Maya Angelou on January 20, 1993, on the day of the Presidential Inauguration, when she recited her original work, On the Pulse of Morning. My reason for this choice, other than the fact that she is one of the greatest poets of our day, is that the power and beauty of her words inspired us to transcend our individual differences and come together as a nation." |
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Andrew H. Cohn - Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
"In his poem The Cure at Troy, Seamus Heaney refers to those rare moments when 'hope and history rhyme.' For that reason I would choose to be Martin Luther King, Jr. on the day he gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington, D.C. Heaney's poem captures the nature of uplifting hope that inspires us to keep working for justice and a better world."
History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.
- from The Cure at Troy, Seamus Heaney (1990) |
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Margaret M. Pinkham - Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
"If I could trade places with anyone for a day, it would be with my 10-year old daughter because her future is unbounded and she has so much to explore and learn. Plus, I suspect that the experience of knowing what it is like to be 10 years old again would come in handy during the 'tween' years."
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Regina S. Rockefeller – Nixon Peabody LLP
"To prevent the Holocaust and spare the lives of the soldiers and civilians who died in World War II, I would like to travel back in time to become Eva Braun, Hitler's long-time mistress, so that I could end Hitler's life before he rose to power." |
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