Word: brewster
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...recalls that it was the charms of Yale President Brewster--one of Bok's mentors--which finally convinced him to take...
Many felt that Harvard needed a strong, outspoken leader, someone qualified, flexible, innovative and maybe even brash--someone who represented the change universities were undergoing. The Crimson reported that the search committee's model for the new president was Kingman Brewster, 51, then president of Yale. Once a professor at Harvard Law School, Brewster was everything a president needed to be: charming, outspoken, diplomatic and committed to academics...
...Meanwhile, the Napster saga goes on and on. It isn't the first time the recording industry wanted to crack down on technology: as the excellent book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (written by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton) notes in its chapter on the history of the radio DJ, record companies in the '40s were initally skeptical about the power of radio as a promotional tool, and were afraid it would take away sales. Similarly, when FM stereo was introduced, they were likewise afraid the quality of home taping would make LPs redundant. And yet these obviously...