Word: ambassadors
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John Kenneth Galbraith, a longtime economics professor, onetime ambassador to India, and five-time presidential adviser, died on May 29 in Mount Auburn Hospital...
...profession, but it never failed to please the rest of us,” Schlesinger wrote. “In a quiet way, without fanfare, he helped more people and promoted more noble causes...than most people have ever known.” Bok described former professor, author and ambassador as “the paprika in our stew” at Harvard, “adding a truly distinctive and memorable quality.” The incoming interim President said of the six-foot-eight professor, “He casts a long shadow, both literally and figuratively...
...raised to believe that if I did good work, those at the top would take notice, and one day I would be invited to perform all those important roles I aspired to fill ever since I was a teenager. I would be asked to be Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and later, its foreign minister. Other than the fatal illusion that college in America resembles “Grease,” it’s probably the reason I went to Harvard in the first place. I wanted to make sure that when invitations were...
...were looking on the University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes of the Korean War.The popular press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting a notorious member of the U.S. Communist Party to appear on campus to propagandize innocent undergraduates. A Cambridge City Councilman, Edward A. “Fast Eddie” Sullivan...
...Meanwhile, Canadians are wrestling with the shock of finding an alleged terror plot on their own soil, and debating what it may mean for Canada's role in the war on terror. Michael Wilson, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S., was quick to assert that Canada is on top of its domestic security threats, and to dispute New York Senator Peter King?s suggestion that there is ?a disportionate number of Al-Qaeda in Canada because of their very liberal immigration laws." In fact, since most of the young men arrested were born or grew up in Canada, this appears...