Word: brooklyn
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...grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., attended Princeton University for undergraduate studies and received his doctorate from Chicago...
...program, will be speaking to some of the best of America’s future lawyers today. In his speech to HLS’s graduating class, King says he will focus on taking risks, a theme that has defined his journey from a rough-and-tumble childhood in Brooklyn to broadcasting superstardom...
Born and raised in Brooklyn as Larry Zeiger, King knew he wanted to be a broadcaster from age five, but his prospects did not look good. By the time he was nine, his father, a bar owner, had died, and his mother went on welfare to support Larry and his brother...
King’s rise to success has been accompanied by the awarding of honorary degrees from many institutions, including George Washington University, the New England Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute. “Every time I get one, it just flips me,” says King, who was also a recent commencement speaker at Columbia University Medical School...
...smattering of classes on the “philosophy of mind,” late-night moral debates with roommates and heavy reading, all of which contributed to “developing one’s worldview,” he says over the phone from his Brooklyn apartment. “That seems to be mostly what I’m about, as opposed to occupational success. Harvard was a good place to do that...