Word: benjamin
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...there is the Harvard name. "It definitely is a foot in the door," says Josselyn, who is working in a local office. Lew, on the other hand, believes that only "in the last ten to 15 years the Harvard and mystique has made a difference." Peter C. Krause and Benjamin R. Miller contributed to the writing and reporting of this article...
Economics Professor Benjamin M. Friedman '66 responded to Feldstein's claim, saying "there is nothing to make one suspect that Keynes supported deficit spending in all cases...
...went about his duties as director of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon, he was kept in solitary confinement, blindfolded and chained by his ankle to a wall. After six months, he was put in a small room with Anderson, Jacobsen and Sutherland. Until his release last September, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was also with them. The only clothing the captives were given was two pairs of underwear apiece--one for wearing, the other for washing. Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle was provided. Apparently fearing a rescue...
Apparently under pressure from Syrian President Hafez Assad, Jihad last year freed another American, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, but claimed that William Buckley, a U.S. diplomat, had been killed to avenge an Israeli air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia. Buckley's death remains unconfirmed. In April another American captive, Librarian Peter Kilburn, and two Britons were killed in retaliation for the U.S. air attack on Libya. That leaves three American hostages: Anderson, 38, an Associated Press correspondent; David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, the university's acting dean...
Americans have always wanted it both ways. From the first tentative settlements in the New World, a tension has existed between the pursuit of individual liberty and the quest for Puritan righteousness, between Benjamin Franklin's open road of individualism and Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening of moral fervor. The temper of the times shifts from one pole to the other, and along with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform...