Recitation of Genevra Stone's accomplishments on and off the water are a simple Google search away. The well documented 31-year-old gal from Newton studied at the Winsor School, attended Princeton University and in 2014 graduated from Tufts Medical School. Competing in this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a member of the U.S. rowing team and earning a silver medal are two of Dr. Stone's many other accomplishments. Details of her days are online everywhere, which allowed our chat to focus less on the logistics of rowing and more on the merits of the sport's greater lessons. Our conversation was a snapshot of how applying oneself to a challenge, especially when you can't see where you're headed, can be the best determinant of success.
Because of what came later — Donald Trump's refusal to say whether he'd accept the results of the election — Hillary Clinton's similar, if somewhat less incendiary, remark about our system's legitimacy went nearly unnoticed.
Right out of the box, responding to a query from Chris Wallace about the Supreme Court (and let me add my voice to the general hosannas for his mature and professional conduct), Clinton implied that a Supreme Court decision she disliked, Citizens United v. FEC, "undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system."
