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Quoting [Bill Ackman’s War on Harvard, MIT, DEI, and Everyone Else](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-ackman-war-harv...)

> Ackman believes that our lives are often fated from birth. “I have a view that people become their names,” he told me. “Like, I’ve met people named Hamburger that own McDonald’s franchises.” We’d been talking for nearly an hour and a half when Ackman asked me what my name was, hoping to offer a diagnosis. After he seemed momentarily stumped by my surname, I offered him my first name, which he misheard as Reed. “Read … write,” he said, before turning back to himself. “So, my name is Ackman — it’s like Activist Man.”

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There is or was a midwestern brewer called Wiedeman or maybe Wiedemann. But no doubt they were more discriminating drinkers at Harvard than we were out in the sticks.