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After college, Ledecky first worked for Albert H. Gordon ’23, who is also a Crimson editor, at investment bank Kidder, Peabody & Co. on Wall Street. He later returned to Cambridge to attend the Business School, staying in Eliot House as the Master’s butler and a residential tutor. After graduating the Business School in 1983, Ledecky says he had offers from many investment banks but was interested in entrepreneurship instead...
...soldiers who acted badly didn't lack training. They followed the Administration's "my way or the highway" attitude. Is it any surprise that they felt they could do anything they liked? I am an Army veteran who feels only shame. KATHLEEN C. BUTLER Wichita, Kans...
...developed the shuttles' manipulator arm. The most personable is NASA's Robonaut, which has a torso, arms and a head that are adult size and a leg that plugs in for stability and power. The Robonaut was built as a spacewalk assistant to hand astronauts tools and perform the butler-like task of brushing contaminants off their space suits. But with five-fingered hands and cameras for eyes, it may be perfect for the repair job on Hubble. If NASA okays the mission, the agency has until the end of the year to pick the winning robot. Simon Cowell...
...John Kerry?" asks George Butler. "It's a big question." The documentary filmmaker who propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger to fame with the 1977 movie Pumping Iron, Butler is hoping he will have crafted the definitive answer onto 90 minutes of celluloid in time to hit theaters by late summer. The film will be loosely based on Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley's admiring biography of Kerry's years as a boat captain in Vietnam and then as an antiwar protester. But Butler brings more to the $1.3 million project than his cinematic skills. A close friend of the Senator...
...Though Butler says the Kerry campaign has no editorial control over the film, it is cooperating. "The secret to [Kerry's] future is in his past," says Butler, promising "a fair amount of objectivity." He notes that he and Schwarzenegger were close friends when he made Pumping Iron. "Don't compare me to Boswell," he adds, "but the fact is, the greatest biography ever written"--The Life of Samuel Johnson--"was written by Johnson's best friend...