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...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...
...policy on arms control in the former Soviet Union and oversight of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and missile defense programs. Carter now co-directs the Preventive Defense Project—a collaborative research effort between Harvard and Stanford—with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry. Former Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye, who has been offered the position of U.S. ambassador to Japan, lauded the likely nomination as a “terrific choice.” Nye, who worked with Carter at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration, noted his unique background...
...first item on the Council’s agenda was the financial crisis. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith told the Council that he has been receiving multiple plans from different departments and said that he is pleased with discussions on the matter...
...Every adjunct offering has a specific purpose. [Adjuncts] enrich the curriculum and diversify it, at a bargain for the school,” she said. “I wouldn’t want to be the dean right now, having to make these decisions...
Franco is perhaps best know for his roles as Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man trilogy and actor James Dean in the biographical TNT movie, which earned him the 2001 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a miniseries or television film...