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Creating an inspired look from scratch with 24 dollars in 24 hours? For fashion veteran Lucy W. Baird ’10, this is a familiar challenge. Both the defending champion from last year’s FM Fast Fashion Challenge, and an active member of The Vestis Council, a Harvard organization for fashion design Baird is old hat at anything involving fabric and scissors. It’s a Friday afternoon and the clock reads 4 p.m. The designers are given names of famous Harvard alumni on slips of paper as inspiration for the looks they will create. Baird...
...plan's champion, Chicago mayor Richard Daley. "The city's pitch was, We're going to take your home one way or another," says Joseph Karaganis, Bensenville's attorney. "Sell voluntarily, or we'll take you to court to condemn your property." Daley, says 25-year resident Roberta Baird, "is like the bully on the playground who wants all the toys...
...even when he began basically working part-time, with most of his week spent in the state capital. He had been reluctant to take the University of Chicago job in the first place, planning to do community work and write a book on civil rights law. But Douglas Baird, then chair of the law school's faculty appointments committee, convinced Obama to take a two-year post as a law and government fellow, promising him an office and time to work on his first book. Baird figured that "he'd be around, in case we could persuade him. [Then...
...1990s, however, Obama had published Dreams from My Father and was contemplating a career in politics. Baird, by then the law school's dean, recalls Obama walking into his office one day to announce that he planned to run for the Illinois state senate. "It's a bad idea," Baird recalls telling Obama. "You have great talents. You should think about joining the faculty." He recalls Obama saying, "That's not who I am. I want to try politics." Their arrangement: Obama was to become a senior lecturer, a title that put him on the same tier with accomplished attorneys...
...Pitt then ran me through an hour-long version of a process that would normally include a questionnaire and a request for my medical files, tax returns and financial-disclosure reports. He asked the Thomas Eagleton question about mental problems, which I passed. He asked the Zoë Baird question about employing illegal immigrants and not paying their taxes. I confessed I didn't know much about our gardener's citizenship status, given that I tape a $100 check to my door every month that is made out to simply "Rafael." It turns out I'm safely below...