Word: dillon
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...canny and successful Wall Street investment banker while still in his 20s, a yuppie before his time. But in 1937, at the age of 30, Paul Nitze experienced a Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus conversion. He took a leave from the firm of Dillon, Read & Co. to tour his family's ancestral homeland, Germany. Deeply disturbed by what he saw of Adolf Hitler's rule, he returned home?but not to the world of high finance and private wealth. Instead, he went back to his alma mater, Harvard, to study history, sociology and philosophy: 'There were big issues...
...course, as Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez writes, “a liberal education is what remains after you have forgotten the facts that were first learned while becoming educated.” And it is true that we are young and have lots of ground to cover. But as we speed-read our way through the semester, the acquisition of critical judgment does not always seem to be the priority. Save for the concentrated spurt of penning an essay, we do not always have the time, nor do we learn to develop the patience...
Susan R. Suleiman, Dillon professor of the civilization of France and professor of comparative literature, wrote in an e-mail that the group also suggested Summers and Kirby could do more...
...Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison Jr. predicted a nuclear strike against America or its allies “within the next decade...
Safe from what? From whatever-happened-to-itis, a danger personified by his half brother Drama, once a rising star, now a washed-up actor chafing in Vince's shadow. (He's played by Kevin Dillon, the brother of Matt Dillon and evidently the best sport in Hollywood.) Dillon gives depth and poignancy to a one-joke character. Admittedly, it's often a great joke, as when Drama brags about having been on "Blue"--it turns out he means not NYPD but Pacific Blue, the mid-'90s show about buff bicycle cops. Grenier, likewise, gives Vince a sweet, dim Vinnie...