Word: careers
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Armini will also serve as a proctor in Grays Hall this fall with his wife, Jennifer W. Armini, who is assistant director of career services at the Kennedy School...
When it came time to think about what to do with his life, "he was torn between his desire for public service and his desire for a career in theater or the arts," says Ted Van Dyk, a family friend. Van Dyk ran the Center for Democratic Policy, a liberal think tank in Washington, where Kennedy served an internship during the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Brown. "He had never really been to Washington," says Van Dyk. "He didn't even know where the White House was." Jackie had made a conscious decision to shield him from...
...didn't seem to mind. There was even a touch of exhibitionism in the way he made his body available to the paparazzi. "He seemed to want the attention a bit," says Van Dyk. Kennedy dabbled in acting, but Jackie thought it an unserious, and thus unsuitable, career choice. When he and Christina Haag did a show together in 1985, he made sure to tell reporters, "It's just a hobby...
Educated in private schools, young John Kennedy went on to Brown, where he seemed to contemplate a career on the stage, and then, changing course, to New York University Law School. He worked for Robert Morgenthau in the district attorney's office, had trouble passing his bar examination, frequented downtown night spots and figured in gossip columns. He was a magically handsome young man, irresistible to women--"the hunk," the press called him. People dismissed him as a charming lightweight...
After the cancer was diagnosed, Armstrong says, "the first thing I thought was, 'Oh, no! My career's in jeopardy!' Then they kept finding new problems, and I forgot about my career--I was more worried about making it to my next birthday. I had the same emotions when I was sick as I have as a competitive athlete. At first I was angry; [then] I felt motivated and driven to get better. And then when I knew I was getting better, I knew I was winning." His experience has made him "a better man, just like all survivors...