Word: distinguishedness
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The thing about the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos is this: you never get time to think. The crush of business leaders, politicians, scientists, thinkers and celebrity do-gooders is so great, the cornucopia of temptations on display so salivating, that you can't quite get...
As a star receiver for the Superbowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, Lynn Swann was used to making his own winning plays. But in his race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in his home state of Pennsylvania, Swann may have just been handed the game, thanks to an ill...
Maynard Solomon, a distinguished Beethoven biographer, said Forbes’ revision came at a pivotal time in Beethoven scholarship. It was Forbes, he said, who put together the pieces of nearly a half-century of uncoordinated and fragmented research.
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when...
Resumes don?t get much better than this: Princeton; Yale Law School; high-powered Washington jobs; 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. But for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, a lifetime's work has boiled down to one public performance this week on Capitol Hill. For...