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...support, were lifelong friends of my parents Herbert and Mildred Stein after they met at the University of Chicago in the mid '30s. My father, a distinguished economist himself and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon and briefly under Ford, forever stood in awe of the man. As my pop said many times, "Friedman was like every other economics student at Chicago in those days except twice as smart...
...Brooks made her own happy ending, before she died in Rochester in 1985, at 78. She had cultivated her legend, finding new adherents who treated her with the kind of awe she hadn't been granted in decades, and then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday...
...Usually, the images you see on photographs or works of art are much more one-dimensional. Here, it’s almost sort of haunting, like a foreboding of his death,” says Cheek, in awe of the picture’s unassuming intensity...
Geology and theology - Essam al-Rawi saw no contradiction between his two passions. "Being a scientist makes me appreciate God better," he told me last summer. "My education and training give me a better understanding of His creation, so I feel a greater sense of awe toward Him." Both soft-spoken and outspoken, Al-Rawi was entirely comfortable being a professor of geology and a prominent member of the Association of Muslim Scholars - Iraq's main Sunni clerical group, long suspected of ties to the insurgency...
...universities to teach “the application of our basic knowledge for the improvement of the health of our populations.” Fauci discussed pandemic and seasonal flu, while Foege touched on a range of topics—including Richmond’s accomplishments and his own awe at how far the field of medicine has come in his lifetime. “What a great era we’ve lived through,” Foege said. “Could we have imagined that we would have vaccines for so many diseases, including...