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...gathered my things to leave Walsh’s office, I mentioned that I was reading a book for my thesis on the turbulent, racially-charged period of school desegregation in Boston during the 1970s. I asked Walsh, who grew up in Dorchester and long ago determined the letter “R” to be an unnecessary impediment to good conversation, about his experiences living in the city during that time...
After the 20-minute, anecdote-laden discourse that followed, I realized that I was talking to a personification of what the author of that book was trying to explain...
Though most deans teach occasionally, Minow managed to teach a yearlong course and a class during the winter term—as well as lectured at various universities and completed a book on Brown v. Board of Education to be published this summer—an academic load that Jackson says is unusually heavy...
...October 2008, then-Senator Obama surprised many when he included two works by Adam Smith on a list of the books that most deeply influenced him. The question of whether “The Wealth of Nations” has been an inspiration for Obama’s response to our current economic troubles will have to be saved for another occasion. Smith’s other book, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” has had a more obvious effect on the president’s worldview...
...Adam B. Wheeler. I’ve never written a book, I don’t have a 4.00, and I didn’t win a Hoopes prize junior year. I’ve never been invited to lecture on anything, anywhere, nor can I speak five languages. In fact, my grade point average is far from stellar, I can’t name an academic prize I was even considered for, and other than a few French phrases I pull out mostly for comedic value, I stick to my native tongue. Like I said...