Word: baird
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Former President Derek C. Bok, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., former Education School Dean Patricia A. Graham and Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach addressed a group of about 300 graduates at a symposium on the future of Harvard in society...
...years past, Harvard simply found posts for spouses. For example, Georgene B. Herschbach, wife of Nobel Prize-winning Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, works as registrar for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Jane S. Knowles, wife of current Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, is a librarian in Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library...
...White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, a former Watergate committee staff lawyer who gave Hillary Rodham Clinton her first job, is seen by almost everyone in the White House as a political bumbler who has given his boss poor guidance on a host of matters from the nominations of Zoe Baird and Lani Guinier to the travel-office flap. Even congressional lobbyist Paster, one of the few officials with deep Washington experience, is too closely allied with the liberal House leadership for many House moderates and Senators...
...meeting, as quick to solicit advice as to ignore it, and he has a weakness for imposing unrealistic deadlines on himself. He admitted to this final failing last week, remembering that it was his self-imposed Christmas deadline on filling his Cabinet that led him to pick Zoe Baird as Attorney General. When he decided this week to postpone announcing his health-care plan until mid-June, he did so because he doesn't want to have a legislative pileup. But he also admitted, says an aide, that "getting it right is more important than getting it out on time...
...Maryland firm that offers tax advice has run ads that warn DON'T BE ZOED -- As in Zoe Baird, the nominee for Attorney General, forced to withdraw partly because of tax problems. Here's a lexicon of other names we hope will find their way into English...