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Mike Levin was president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, one of the

great hoteliers of all time, a legend in his business.

He also happens to be a friend who almost every time I talk to him,

I learned something about him, myself, and life. He's what you would call a wise man. And we need

more wisdom in this country. And we love bringing wisdom to this show. Up next is a story Mike

tells about his time in law school.

Mike had graduated from Tufts.

He's a Boston guy, a diehard Patriots fan.

We'll forgive him for that.

And in the end, this is a story about empathy and about life.

And he's a businessman talking about empathy.

And ordinarily you wouldn't think that would happen.

Let's hear Mike and his story.

Tufts was a really great experience and prepared me to go to law school.

So I applied to law school and I took the LSATs and I'm never a great test taker, but I scored in those years 75 or 78th percentile, something like that.

So I decided I'd apply to all the best law schools except Harvard and Yale.

So I applied to Columbia, I applied to Stanford, I applied to Michigan, I applied to NYU and and University of Chicago, which at that time,

those were all the highest rate of schools.

I got into all of those schools in law school,

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