June 8, 2002
[Email to Spencer Re: Tuition cuts at work:]

". . . Also sick - kissing the Northwestern [University] thing - goodbye. A sad goodbye to another great dream - I briefly clutched in my little teenage-fingers. Trading a million-dollar career for one in the forties - with the same amount of work and stress. Why is this happening, I asked, and asked and asked? Same answer. Blank. . . "