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...patiently and with great rigor made a decade of systematic research by writing papers, teaching others and working through the challenges of the procedure. Barnard, who watched some of these procedures being carried out when he trained in the U.S., went back to South Africa and--with very little background and at the age of 45--seized the moment and performed this transplant. His patient died 18 days later, for Barnard was racing ahead of medicine's understanding of tissue rejection. But the pioneering spirit of that operation captured me at the time...
...What’s most impressive is she had no background whatsoever about the American political system and has become a master of the legislative process,” says Jared Genser, Yang’s classmate at KSG and his pro bono lawyer. “She is a much more effective advocate on behalf of her husband because...she’s articulate and...people will feel much more guilty about not returning her calls than mine...
...guys!,? said the U.S. general as he entered a room full of reporters for the first background briefing by a senior officer at CENTCOM HQ in Doha. He asked if there were any Arab media in the room. (Al Jazzera was not there...
...dramatic engine of Tearing Down the Walls, Monica Langley's biography of Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, is his lifelong struggle for acceptance among Wall Street's elite. What a burden, we are repeatedly reminded, was Weill's background as a rumply Jewish kid from Brooklyn, N.Y.--he's even the wrong kind of Jew!--as he fought to overcome anti-Semitism and class prejudice to make it to the top, not once but twice. It's a nice story line but a somewhat artificial...
...time when universities around the country, and families everywhere, can feel the effects of a weaker national economy, we are determined to protect every student’s ability to come to Harvard, regardless of his or her financial background,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said in a prepared statement...